Marketing Unsold Timber
Daly asked how the Department would sell unsold timber and substitute it for imports; the Ceann Comhairle ruled that the issue was outside the question on forest coverage.
The Minister will be aware that probably in the region of £400 million has been invested in forestry since the foundation of the State and since we got involved in forestry development. He will agree that there is national waste, in that one-third of the timber that can be produced is unsold and has remained unsold for the past two or three years or maybe longer. Have the Department and the Minister any proposals which would enable the available timber resources to be sold and, indeed, to substitute this timber for the imported timber that Deputy Molony is talking about?
Comment on this
It may be relevant to forestry and afforestation but it is not relevant to the question.