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SHARING OPTIONS: One of the themes that emerged during Jo O Hara s discussions with stakeholders was land availability and suitability for forestry. \Donal Magner Minister of State Pippa Hackett has announced the four chairpersons of the Project Woodland working groups, following a meeting with the project board, chaired by Brendan Gleeson. The board oversees the delivery of Jo O’Hara’s Implementation of the Mackinnon Report. Stressing the need for urgency, the minister said: “The project board agreed that the working groups should convene immediately to agree deliverables and project milestones.” The working groups examine key issues identified by O’Hara. The groups will be chaired by: Michael Cantwell, former Director of Enterprise Ireland, Dr Matt Crowe, former director, EPA, Professor Thia Hennessy, chair of Agri-Food Economics, Cork University Business School and Michael Layde, former assistant secretary gener ....
SHARING OPTIONS: The new Teagasc forest carbon tool (FCT) is a first step in Ireland to measure the mean and cumulative CO2 sequestration of forests and woodlands by species, soil types and productivity. \Donal Magner The important role that forests play in carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation is acknowledged internationally. Measuring actual sequestration poses a number of challenges especially when harvesting and management regimes, tree species, soil types, rotation lengths and biodiversity, are factored in. In addition, the afterlife of wood in areas such as displacement of fossil based material in construction needs to be considered. A new Teagasc forest carbon tool (FCT) launched last month by Minister of State Pippa Hackett, is a first step in Ireland to measure the mean and cumulative CO2 sequestration of forests and woodlands by species, soil types and productivity. ....
There are 4,436 forestry licences awaiting processing by Department of Agriculture officials, the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture heard last Friday. The Department’s assistant secretary Colm Hayes told Michael Fitzmaurice TD: “There are 4,436 licences on hand in the Department for processing, of which 2,705 are for felling, 691 are for roads and 1,040 are for afforestation.” He said he had set a figure of 4,500 licences for 2021. Dissatisfaction Regarding dissatisfaction with compensation for forest owners with ash dieback chief forestry inspector Seamus Dunne said there were “no plans to review the grant and the scheme”. He told the committee there had been 250 applications under the scheme and “a few approvals” had been issued. ....
December 14, 2020 3:42 pm L-RL: Pat Neville of Coillte; Donal Whelan, ITGA; Donal Magner, editor of the Forestry Yearbook; Senator Pippa Hackett, Minister of State for Forestry; Mechteld Schuller, ITGA; and Brendan Lacey, ITGA chairman The Irish Timber Growers Association (ITGA) 2021 Forestry and Timber Yearbook was launched this week by Minister with responsibility for Forestry at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett. In welcoming the yearbook publication, its 32nd edition, the minister said: “The yearbook continues to reflect the importance of the sector, its economic and environmental significance and provides the sector with important reference material and is an ideal compendium of information for growers and the industry.” ....