Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 5 December 2023
452. Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 121 and 122 of 29 November 2023, if his Department will refuse to permit the conversion of existing forest land to agroforestry as is not a policy objective of his Department, nor is it a strategic action in his Department’s Forestry Strategy implementation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53918/23]
View answerAs outlined previously in Parliamentary Questions Nos 121 and 122 of 29 November 2023 owners of ash forests affected by ash dieback are treated as a special case and my Department has allowed, on a case by case basis, and in accordance with my Departments document ‘Felling and Reforestation Policy (2017)’, the conversion of ash forests devastated by ash dieback to be replanted under an agroforestry regime. There are no plans to extend this provision to other situations.
