There’s been huge improvements in issuing licences for felling forestry according to the Junior Agriculture Minister.
We’re in the middle of a timber shortage in the construction industry which has increasingly lead to rising costs.
But there’s a huge backlog in the granting of licences from the Dept of Agriculture for harvesting timber in Ireland.
Minister Pippa Hackett has launched a new ”Trees: from seed to sawdust” series on KCLR.
She says she’s been trying to steamline the system and stepped things up:
Meanwhile, hear the first instalment of ‘Trees: from seed to sawdust’ here: