Mr. Donal Magner:

Yes, that is not just the produce from the saw mills but from the board mills in Clonmel and Masonite board mills in Leitrim and Waterford. These mills are more competitive and are able to compete in the market place.

I will now respond to Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan's question on the review. We were not involved in the review of forestry. The review of forestry started on the same week as the 2020 agricultural review. Whereas the 2020 report was done and dusted within five or six months, work on the forestry review is still ongoing two years after it started. At the end of our presentation we stated that perhaps this is a good time to look at Irish forestry and policy and not have to sit back and wait for two or three years for a review that will obviously go nowhere. The urgency is gone out of it. It would have been excellent to look at the review of the privatisation of Coillte