296. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Coillte and the forestry industry cannot provide full life cycle carbon accounting for its operations that include the full fossil fuel usage of the clear fell/replant model with high disturbance, especially given that Ireland is harvesting more with shorter rotations; the true carbon/fossil fuel cost of harvesters and loaders and trucks ferrying timber across Ireland to mills, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9335/23]

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296. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Coillte and the forestry industry cannot provide full life cycle carbon accounting for its operations that include the full fossil fuel usage of the clear fell/replant model with high disturbance, especially given that Ireland is harvesting more with shorter rotations; the true carbon/fossil fuel cost of harvesters and loaders and trucks ferrying timber across Ireland to mills, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9335/23]

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