Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 28 April 2021
1119. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of afforestation, road and felling licence applications received by county; the number of decisions issued by county; the number of applications awaiting a decision by county in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21196/21]
View answer1120. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the licensing output for forestry licences in quarter 1 2021 and to date in 2021; the way in which this compares against the stated target of issuing 4,500 licences in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21197/21]
View answer1121. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which the total and average monthly forestry licensing output for 2021 to date compares to average monthly output in each of the years 2015 to 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21198/21]
View answer1122. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average waiting time for an afforestation licence in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21199/21]
View answer1131. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of new forestry planted by county in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21303/21]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 1119, 1120, 1121, 1122 and 1131 together.
The Department makes available a selection of forestry statistics on the Department’s pages of the Government of Ireland website, gov.ie. A Forestry Dashboard is circulated weekly and provides details of outputs for that week, month, and year to date.
Data on afforestation, forest roads and felling licences broken down by county is being prepared and will be forwarded to the Deputy.
Note: Quality data is only available from 26th April 2016 for afforestation and forest road applications and from 24th May 2017 for private tree felling licences, unless otherwise indicated below.
To 23rd April, the number of licences issued this year issued is 1,012. I expect this output to continue to increase over the coming quarters, to achieve the target of 4,500 licences for the year.
|
Scheme |
Licences |
Area (ha)/ Length (m) |
Volume (m3) |
|
Felling |
600 |
6,429.53 |
1,897,711.50 |
|
Afforestation |
203 |
1,788.96 |
|
|
Roads |
209 |
89,448 |
|
|
Total licences |
1,012 |
|
|
The Department publishes monthly reports of licensing and other outputs on the Department’s website and those reports are available from 2016. Therefore, the average monthly output of forestry licences in each of the years from 2016 to date is provided below.
The total number of licences issued per month is indicated in the table below for the years 2016 to end March, 2021
Average number of licences issued per month for the year indicated.
|
2016 |
236 |
|
2017 |
131 |
|
2018 |
137 |
|
2019 |
148 |
|
2020 |
72 |
|
2021 |
95 |
Average time in months from date advertised to date of decision is indicated below.
The amount of new forestry planted by county, from 2015 to 2020 in hectares is below.
