Increasingly hearing very negative opinions on Coillte.
How does this deal male any sense? Former FG politician Pat Cox involved with Gresham House. You’d wonder!
So will this be an English plantation in Ireland again?
The government ran a €5 billion surplus – enough for the state to own this 25x over.
Obviously massive backhanders/future-board-positions in play here. Corrupt cunts.
You’d wonder how Charlie McConallogue (agri minister) and Pippa Hackett (forestry minister) can be taken seriously as Irish politicians. The “I have no involvement in this decision…” doesn’t stack up in the slightest. Also reflects very poorly on the FS who would have advised the minister on this deal.
We must plant more forests, but this is literally one of the worst scenarios that could have been produced. Let’s do the private investment model for housing and apply it to forestry – the public will love it!
People confuse Coillte for an organisation tasked with the management of Ireland’s woodlands. It isn’t, and it never was. It’s a commercial enterprise whose job it to provide lumber for Ireland’s construction industry and for export. Any projects it runs to do with regrowing actual woodland are pure PR bullshit used as a figleaf for its enormous forestry operations. When people realize this, it’s an unpleasant awakening.
Ireland has nothing like the UK’s Woodland Trust. I mean, we do, but it’s a somewhat poor comparison despite the best intentions and trojan work of those involved.
Our National Parks service is likewise something of an afterthought. No real investment, no real support, and certainly no expansion.
That, in the middle of an ecological collapse and after being one of the first nations to declare an environmental emergency, Ireland still has no statuatory or organisational instruments to retire and rewild land is predictably pathetic.
That the organisation we entrust with 7% of our entire land bank would go into partnership with a UK investment fund is equally pathetic.
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Increasingly hearing very negative opinions on Coillte.
How does this deal male any sense? Former FG politician Pat Cox involved with Gresham House. You’d wonder!
So will this be an English plantation in Ireland again?
The government ran a €5 billion surplus – enough for the state to own this 25x over.
Obviously massive backhanders/future-board-positions in play here. Corrupt cunts.
You’d wonder how Charlie McConallogue (agri minister) and Pippa Hackett (forestry minister) can be taken seriously as Irish politicians. The “I have no involvement in this decision…” doesn’t stack up in the slightest. Also reflects very poorly on the FS who would have advised the minister on this deal.
We must plant more forests, but this is literally one of the worst scenarios that could have been produced. Let’s do the private investment model for housing and apply it to forestry – the public will love it!
People confuse Coillte for an organisation tasked with the management of Ireland’s woodlands. It isn’t, and it never was. It’s a commercial enterprise whose job it to provide lumber for Ireland’s construction industry and for export. Any projects it runs to do with regrowing actual woodland are pure PR bullshit used as a figleaf for its enormous forestry operations. When people realize this, it’s an unpleasant awakening.
Ireland has nothing like the UK’s Woodland Trust. I mean, we do, but it’s a somewhat poor comparison despite the best intentions and trojan work of those involved.
Our National Parks service is likewise something of an afterthought. No real investment, no real support, and certainly no expansion.
That, in the middle of an ecological collapse and after being one of the first nations to declare an environmental emergency, Ireland still has no statuatory or organisational instruments to retire and rewild land is predictably pathetic.
That the organisation we entrust with 7% of our entire land bank would go into partnership with a UK investment fund is equally pathetic.
It’s all just sad failure. Failure all round.