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Public Consultation on Additional Information in relation to certain Forestry Licence Applications
From Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
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From Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
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Under Regulation 10(4) of the Forestry Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 191 of 2017) where the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine publishes a formal notice of additional information in relation to a particular application for a licence for felling, afforestation, forest road works, or aerial fertilisation currently under consideration by the Department, the public may make a submission or observation in writing concerning that application to the Minister within 30 days from the date of publication of the notice.
The lists below give notice of the applications for licences currently under consideration by the Department where it has been determined that additional information received or prepared in relation to them, i.e. in the form of a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) or an Appropriate Assessment Report (AAR), should be so published.
Further information on forestry licence applications received after 01/01/2018 and the related NIS or AAR may be obtained in the Department’s Forestry Licence Viewer link.
Further information on forestry licence applications received before 01/01/2018 may be obtained at here
As set out above, any person may now make a submission or observation concerning these applications within 30 days of the publication of the notice on the Department’s website.
Submissions or requests for further information, must be made in writing, contact information is below. The submission must include a name or names, postal address and phone number or email.
Submissions received on forestry licence applications will be made available to view in the Forestry Licence Viewer (FLV) as described above. It must be noted that the name and address of the person(s) that makes the submission will be available in the FLV (but not their phone number or email). The Department’s privacy statement in relation to documents published, is available in the help pages of the FLV.
The Forestry (Amendment) Regulations (S.I. No. 417 of 2020) provide for the charging of application and submission fees. The fee for the making of a submission in respect of any one application (by licence reference number) is €20. A single submission that covers several licence reference numbers will be charged according to each reference number.
Where a person has already made a submission in respect of an application during an initial public consultation period and paid the prescribed submission fee for that submission, in relation to the notice above no further fee shall be payable on condition that any submission is accompanied by a copy of the acknowledgement by the Department of receipt of the original submission fee.
Submission fees are non-refundable regardless of the final decision on the licence application including withdrawal, or if the submission and/or payment are received after the closing date for submissions.
Submissions must be received by 4pm on the date indicated on the notice.
Submissions received by post delivered to the address below on the closing date or submissions received by email if the timestamp of the email is sent before 4pm on the closing date, will be considered valid providing payment is also received before the closing date. It is important that submissions are emailed to the correct address, as indicated below. Submissions sent to other email addresses cannot be accepted as valid.
Enquiries and submissions on applications for licences for Afforestation, Forest Roads, or Aerial Fertilisation should be addressed to:
Enquiries and submissions on applications for Tree Felling Licences should be addressed to:
The Department is making available the following method for paying a submission:
Valid cheques, bank drafts, postal orders or money orders may be sent by post with a written submission. Do not send bank notes in the post. Such payments must be made payable to Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. A submission accompanied with payment by cheque, bank draft, postal or money orders, that is found to be invalid, will not be accepted. Third party cheques, bank drafts, postal or money orders cannot be accepted.
Payment is accepted by credit/debit card over the phone between 09.15am – 12.45pm and 2pm – 5pm Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays). Please phone 053-9163425, where card details will be taken, and payment processed.
During this call, you will be asked for your name, address and phone number and the reference number of the application concerned. This is to enable matching the payment to the submission. The information will not be retained, once the payment is validated and attached to a submission.
The Department cannot accept responsibility for incorrect licence reference numbers.
All valid submissions will be acknowledged, which will serve as a receipt of payment of the submission fee.