Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would like to return to the issue of premium price. Is the premium price based on the fact that the council has to import some of its raw materials or is it because the premium price is being paid to Coillte?

Investment in this area comes from the body charged with developing and growing forests in this country. It has advised the council that there is a huge amount of timber coming down the line and to gear itself up for it. It says a lot about the standard of management within Coillte when, as the body charged with developing the forestry industry, it can get it so wrong.