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General info

Forest Sector Development Division deals with forest genetic resources, forest sector climate change adaptation and mitigation, international forest policy, EU Timber Regulation (EUTR), forest-based renewable energy, forest products and standards, roundwood production forecasts, forest harvest and trade statistics. The Division provides the secretariat to the Council for Forest Research and Development (COFORD).

Head of Division:
Fergus Moore, Senior Forestry Inspector
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01 6072085/087 675 0700

International Forest Policy/ EUTR:
Cormac Fitzpatrick, Assistant Principal Officer,
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01 607 2681/086 417 0464

Forest genetic resources, seed stand and seed orchard schemes:
Brian Clifford, Forestry Inspector,
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01 6072683/087 0559530.

COFORD council secretariat, publications and general enquiries:
Michelle Furlong, Executive Officer,
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053-9170322.

See www.coford.ie for a listing of COFORD publications and other forest sector information.

COFORD Council 2019-2021

Dr Eugene Hendrick, Chairman

- Fergus Moore, Forest Sector Development (DAFM)
- Seamus Dunne, Forest Service (DAFM)
- Tony Quinn, Research, Food & CODEX Co-ordination (DAFM)
- Matthew Clancy, Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI)
- Vincent Nally, IFA
- Patrick Murray, Murrays Timber Group Ltd
- Asst Prof Áine Ní Dhubháin University College Dublin
- Neil Kerrigan, Enterprise Ireland
- Daragh Little, Forest Industries Ireland
- John Kavanagh, None-so-Hardy Nurseries Ltd
- Mark Carlin, Coillte
- Dr Nuala Ní Fhlatharta, Teagasc
- John Joe O Boyle, Northern Ireland Forest Service
- Dr Declan Little, Woodlands of Ireland
- Donal Whelan, Irish Timber Growers Association

COFORD Council Working Groups 2019-2021
- Forest Genetic Resources
- Roundwood Forecasting and Wood Mobilisation
- Forests, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption
- Forest Policy, monitoring of implementation
- Promotion of Forestry and Afforestation
- Socioeconomic contribution of the Irish forest sector

FOREST RESEARCH DIVISION

Tony Quinn
Forest Inspector / Research & Codex Division
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Agriculture House
Kildare Street
Dublin 2
DO2 WK12
01 6072486

Andrew McCullagh
Forestry Inspector / Research & Codex Division
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Agriculture House,
Kildare Street,
Dublin 2,
D02 WK12
01 607 2344

www.agriculture.gov.ie/research

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