Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members]
Dail Éireann — 2023-01-24
============================================================

Charlie McConalogue (FF), Donegal

There was a backlog of some 6,000 licences at that stage. This was 6,000 licences waiting for more than 120 days. That is what we faced when we came in three years ago. I remember back to Christmas 2020 when sawmills across the State were running out of wood. They could not get it. I remember the crisis meetings we were having-----

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2023-01-24/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-27T06:54:42+00:00
Sitting date: 2023-01-24