Written answers
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Sector
Michael Lowry (Tipperary, Independent)
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452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 121 and 122 of 29 November 2023, if his Department will refuse to permit the conversion of existing forest land to agroforestry as is not a policy objective of his Department, nor is it a strategic action in his Department’s Forestry Strategy implementation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53918/23]
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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As outlined previously in Parliamentary Questions Nos 121 and 122 of 29 November 2023 owners of ash forests affected by ash dieback are treated as a special case and my Department has allowed, on a case by case basis, and in accordance with my Departments document ‘Felling and Reforestation Policy (2017)’, the conversion of ash forests devastated by ash dieback to be replanted under an agroforestry regime. There are no plans to extend this provision to other situations.
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