An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2021-09-15
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Mattie McGrath (IND), Tipperary

I am objecting also. I want the Taoiseach to arrange for a debate on felling licences for forestry. We are talking about building houses. Merchants cannot get a stick of timber. The price of timber has increased by more than 100% and it is just not working. We need legislation that will empower people to cut their forests in the same way as you harvest any crop. When you set a crop of wheat, you are entitled to harvest it. It must be the same for forestry even though it involves a 30-year timespan. This nonsense of a licence is a joke. We are being held up with objections. We must change the legislation; otherwise we will never get a house built.

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Sitting date: 2021-09-15