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Enacted Seanad
No. 32 of 2020

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020

Public bill · Government · Presented

Changes how forestry licence appeals are handled, mainly to speed up the Forestry Appeals Committee’s work and clear delays. It lets the committee split into smaller groups, decide some appeals without a hearing, sets a 28-day appeal deadline, allows appeal fees to be introduced, and gives the Minister more control over procedures and priorities. It also requires more forestry application and appeal documents to be published online, so the public can see more of the process.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for matters relating to forestry including, in relation to the Forestry Appeals Committee, reporting on the activities of the Committee, enabling the Committee to sit in divisions to determine appeals, procedures and arrangements for conduct of appeals by the Committee and the payment of fees to the Committee in respect of appeals; and for those purposes to amend the Agriculture Appeals Act 2001; to provide for the publication of information relating to applications for licences for felling, afforestation, forest road works or aerial fertilisation of forests; for those purposes to amend the Forestry Act 2014; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 5 October 2020

Sponsor
  • Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages
    Dáil
  • Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages
    Seanad
  • Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Order for Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage
    Seanad
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