Country Market Update: Ireland | 19
SUMMARY
■ The felling licence appeal rate has fallen from 80% to about 5% ■ Coillte had 600,000m3 of volume tied up in March
-700,000m3
■ Planting is at a very low level ■ Year-on-year, the price of untreated KD C16 was up 66% in March
AN UNHOLY TRINITY
Ireland’s sawmilling sector has had to deal with three unwelcome issues – Brexit, Covid and a lack of felling licences. Sally Spencer reports
Ireland’s sawmilling sector has been visited by an unholy trinity over the last 12 months, facing the triple whammy of Covid-19, Brexit and the felling licence debacle. Of the three, it is the latter that has caused the most anguish. At the time of research for the last TTJ report on the sector (TTJ November/December 2020), emergency legislation had just been passed and there was hope that the backlog of felling licence applications and the
consequent log shortage would be resolved quickly. It hasn’t quite panned out that way – but there is improvement.
“It’s not solved yet but it is a lot better,” said a Coillte spokesperson. “The legislation has made a massive difference to the volume of new appeals, so we’ve gone from the situation we had back in August/September where the appeal rate was about 80% to now where it’s about 5%.”
Effectively, this should give the Forestry Appeals Committee (FAC) the chance to catch up, although the pace at which they are hearing appeals “hasn’t increased dramatically”, so there is still plenty of roundwood trapped in the system. Coillte doesn’t have many 2021 licences left to be issued but still has “quite a significant amount” with the FAC. The problem now is that road permits have to go through ►
Above: Coillte’s log supply is still being held up by the felling licence issue
www.ttjonline.com | May/June 2021 | TTJ
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