You reap what you sow.  The age-old adage best sums up the predicament faced by the Department of Agriculture as it works desperately to eliminate a backlog of forestry licence applications longer than it wishes to know.  The service has faced periodic struggles in the past to keep up with applications coming into it from the semi-state forestry body Coillte, commercial forestry companies, and landowners. But things became much more complicated in the early 2020s as the intray of the Forestry Appeals Committee (FAC) buckled under the weight of cases that flooded in. Many appeals went in the favour of…

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