Forestry Licensing Plan News Today

Minister of State for Land Use and Biodiversity at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett, has published her Department’s Forestry Licencing plan for 2024.

The government is "failing" to deliver on forestry because afforestation licensing figures are continuing "to drop according to Sinn Féin.

Over 3,600 forestry licenses issued so far in 2022 2022-10-18

Afforestation licences for new plantings across an area of 3,941ha have been issued so far this year, according to the DAFM.

The number of forestry licences issued this year continues to increase, with a jump of 34% when compared with the same period in 2021. Minister of State for Lan...

Approximately two thirds of applications to the Reconstitution and Underplanting Scheme - set up to deal with ash dieback - have yet to be processed

Minister Pippa Hackett has welcomed further progress to improve the forestry-licensing system and reform forestry policy in Ireland.

Forestry Policy Group meeting, Pippa Hackett, Project Woodland, improved licencing output

ICMSA chair Denis Drennan has said that the problem in forestry is not a lack of ambition but rather 'administrative chaos'.