9 months average wait for licence to plant forestry
Minister Charlie McConalogue said forestry will play an important role in meeting environment, biodiversity and Climate Action Plan objectives outlined in the Programme for Government. File Picture.
Despite staff costs reaching €7,083,882 in 2020, it takes the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s forestry divisions nine months on average to process a licence application for planting forestry.
“Decisions that issued for afforestation licences in the last 12 months [March 2020 to February, 2021] were in the system for an average time of nine months,” said Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue in the Dáil last week.
