Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 6 July 2023
299. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the monthly targets for private licences with ecology input, excluding Coillte felling licences, were predominantly higher in series one in comparison to series two from January 2022 to January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33301/23]
View answerAs the Deputy is aware, the weekly Forestry Dashboard sets out a series of forestry statistics in the form of a series of charts and tables. The table in question shows the monthly target for processing files with ecology input, versus what actually issued that each month. Unfortunately, due to a technical issue when being updated, the legends on this table defaulted from the proper titles, "Target" and "Issued", to "Series 1" and "Series 2". This has since been rectified and the target of 220 licences with ecology input for January 2022 is the same as the target for January 2023.
