Forestry grants
| Audit Id | 1603191701770 |
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| Title | Forestry grants |
| Title in original language |
Forestry grants English |
| Year | 2019 |
| Subject |
Environment and Natural Resources Government Operations (Budget and Spending) |
| Type |
Performance |
| Type of performance |
Performed by single SAI |
| Comments | The forestry sector offers considerable scope for climate change mitigation. In order to encourage afforestation, Irish Exchequer-funded grants are provided to participating landowners. Up to the end of 2018, there has been a consistent underspend on the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s forestry programme (2014–2020). The programme set a target of 27,000 hectares in the period 2015 to 2018. Over that period, 22,500 hectares were afforested — a shortfall of around 17%. The target for the broadleaf/conifer mix in new planting has also not been met. A number of changes were introduced in February 2018 in order to improve the future performance of the programme. |
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Ireland |
| Materials |
Audit report English |
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