Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 May 2021
536. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 965 of 11 May 2021, the reason he states that he expects output of licences for May to be higher when the dashboard for the week ending 7 May 2021 noted that the Forest Service had only issued 36 licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27548/21]
View answerThe Department is continuing to make improvements to its licensing system in order to streamline the processing of licences.
This does not obviate the need to consider the potential environmental impact of each individual application but there has been an increased output of 109 licences for the third week in May (of which 101 were new licences and eight were re-issued licences from previous FAC appeal decisions). This means that, as predicted, the output for May will be higher than the previous month.
