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Farmers are being asked to do their bit in helping to prevent forest fires this Bank Holiday weekend.It follows wildfires in Killarney National Park and the Mou.
April 21, 2021 10:19 am
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine last month issued 193 forest licences – which is down 45% on the number issued in January 2021, according to the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), which said such figures “make for stark reading”.
Commenting on the matter, IFA Farm Forestry Committee chairman Vincent Nally said: “Farmers need to see delivery on the recommendations in Project Woodland.”
Nally also called on the Minister for Agriculture to immediately introduce the environmental grant to support farmers with the cost of getting a felling licence.
The latest figures from the department “make for stark reading” and “again show the need for a radical overhaul” of the existing licence system if there is any chance of clearing the backlog, the chairman said.
March 3, 2021 4:05 pm
A new ash dieback grant must be introduced to cover some of the financial loss incurred by forest owners, according to the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA).
IFA Farm Forestry Committee chairman Vincent Nally welcomed the report yesterday (Tuesday, March 2) from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine on ‘Issues Impacting the Forestry Sector in Ireland’.
Commenting on it, Nally said: “Given the attention in recent times on the licensing crisis, I would like to commend the committee for bringing a renewed focus to ash dieback and the forest owners whose woodlands are being devastated by the ash dieback disease.