Jackie Cahill
Question:153. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of agricultural land in each county that has been planted with forestry to date in tabular form. [41679/18]
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Forestry is one of the many land use options available to farmers and land owners and the Afforestation Grant and Premium Scheme is one of a wide range of supports provided by my Department. In 2017, 5,536 hectares of new forestry was planted nationally. In 2018 to date, 3,297 hectares of new land has been afforested.
My Department compiles a number of different afforestation statistics annually, which are made available on my Department's website. The third Ireland’s National Forestry Inventory – 2017 was recently published and is available on the website. The NFI and other published data are invaluable sources of statistical information on Ireland’s forest estate.
The area of land afforested in each county is indicated in the following table, which is taken from the third NFI. The area of forest is estimated to be 770,020 ha or 11% of the total land area of Ireland (NFI 2017).
It is not possible to provide the percentage of agricultural land afforested in each county as there is no information available on the total agricultural area in each county.
|
County |
% Area |
|
Carlow |
9.4 |
|
Cavan |
9.3 |
|
Clare |
17.2 |
|
Cork |
12.1 |
|
Donegal |
11.4 |
|
Dublin |
6.5 |
|
Galway |
9.9 |
|
Kerry |
12.1 |
|
Kildare |
6.1 |
|
Kilkenny |
9.6 |
|
Laois |
15.4 |
|
Leitrim |
18.9 |
|
Limerick |
10.4 |
|
Longford |
8.4 |
|
Louth |
2.9 |
|
Mayo |
9.2 |
|
Meath |
5.7 |
|
Monaghan |
4.6 |
|
Offaly |
14.7 |
|
Roscommon |
11.1 |
|
Sligo |
11.4 |
|
Tipperary |
11.8 |
|
Waterford |
14.7 |
|
Westmeath |
8.2 |
|
Wexford |
6.2 |
|
Wicklow |
17.9 |
|
Total |
11.0 |