Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 2 June 2022
414. Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of private sector forest road approvals issued for week commencing 23 May 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28741/22]
View answerUnder the Forestry Licensing Plan 2022, we aim to increase the number of licences issued to 5,250 and specifically to increase the number of forest roads licences to 850, an increase of 27% on 2021.
To date we have issued 317 forest road licences, which is broadly in line with our target.
Forest road applications are received and decided daily. For week commencing 23rd May, 16 forest road licences were issued to private applicants and two were issued to Coillte.
