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Rate of new forestry licences fails to tackle demand for timber Delays are squeezing supplies for Irish house building and hurting export potential
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Delays in processing forestry licences have held up timber production. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
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Government officials are issuing fewer than half the new forestry licences needed to tackle an ongoing squeeze in timber supplies, industry figures warn.
The Department of Agriculture has pledged to tackle ongoing delays in the issue of licences – needed to cut, plant and transport trees – that have hit timber supplies over the last year.