Agriculture Committee to discuss payment issues around Coillte farm partnerships

Representatives from the Farmers' Association and Coillte will appear before the Committee.

Committee Chair Pat Deering TD said today, “Coillte has previously written to the Committee to highlight payment and management difficulties surrounding plantations on their land. While we welcome Coillte’s assertion that they are addressing this long-standing issue, the Committee is gravely concerned about issues around insufficient communication and in some case, the fact that farmers have not been paid by Coillte for years of harvesting timber. Dysfunctional farm partnerships are a huge issue for some farmers and more must be done to ensure that Coillte addresses the issue of payment as a matter of urgency.”

The meeting will start at 3.30pm in Committee Room 1, Leinster House.

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