Forestry
"Government bureacracy" is having a significant negative impact on farmers in "managing their forests".
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is to review the site clearance costs for farmers impacted by ash dieback.
Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners has called for a suspension of the ash dieback scheme until a new government is in place
Minister of State Pippa Hackett has said the "vast majority" of ash dieback owners is "very happy" with the reconstitution scheme in place.
The DAFM has confirmed that Minister of State in the DAFM, Pippa Hackett, did not attend the first meeting of the ash dieback taskforce.
The outcome of the first ash dieback taskforce meeting has been met with strong criticism from some of its members.
Forest owners led by the LTWO have taken to Leinster House today to demand action from government on ash dieback.
Forestry owners impacted by ash dieback are being urged to join a protest outside Leinster House this week.
Woodland owners are concerned that an independent review on ash dieback will be "found gathering dust on a DAFM shelf many years from now".
The Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners (LTWO) is calling for a new scheme to help landowners and farmers impacted by ash dieback.
The government's treatment of farmers impacted by ash dieback has been "hugely damaging" to confidence in the forestry sector, the IFA said.
New proposals for forestry will not encourage farmers to enter the sector, according to the Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners (LTWO).
