Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2020-09-30
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

A deadline would be reasonable if the resources were made available and if the Department could guarantee that there was full compliance. If we just ram a decision through in an arbitrary eight weeks and are not in compliance, we will be in court the day after anyway because somebody will take us to court for having breached the directives. What we need is for the Department to put resources into ensuring that we are in compliance and that we change the forestry model so that we do not find ourselves in these difficulties again in the years ahead.

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Sitting date: 2020-09-30