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Survey Name

Roundwood Removals Survey

Survey purpose and legal basis

The main purpose of the survey is to collect data on removals of roundwood and roundwood biomass from privately-owned forests in Ireland.

The 2024 Roundwood Removals Survey is being conducted under the Statistics (Roundwood Removals Survey) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 49 of 2025), which was made under the Statistics Act, 1993. Under Sections 26 and 27 of the Statistics Act, 1993, you are obliged by law to complete and return the form.

Who uses the results?

Aggregated data from this survey will be published nationally and will be provided to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and to Eurostat.

Is your personal data confidential and how long will the data be retained?

All information supplied to the CSO is treated as strictly confidential in accordance with Section 33 of the Statistics Act, 1993, and will be used for statistical purposes only.

We will retain the survey data indefinitely as one of the purposes of the data collection is to obtain longitudinal information on roundwood and roundwood biomass removals from privately-owned forests in Ireland.

The sources and categories of your personal data, where the data has not been collected directly from you:

N/A

For further information on this survey, your Data Protection rights and how your data is used please contact:

Niamh Shanahan, Statistician, Environment and Climate Division, Central Statistics Office, Ardee Road, Rathmines, Dublin, D06 FX52
E-mail: forestry@cso.ie
Phone: (+353) 1 498 4282

Data Protection Information:

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the following rights:

  • The right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission. Contact details: Office of the Data Protection Commission, 21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28, Ireland.
  • The right to request access, rectification, erasure, restriction or to object to the processing of your personal data.

However, because your data is processed for statistical purposes these rights may be limited in accordance with Article 89 of the GDPR. This is due to the fact that the exercise of any of these rights may render impossible, or seriously impair, the achievement of the statistical processing and such restriction maybe necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.

Central Statistics Office Data Protection Officer Contact Details: