Mr. Donal Magner:

In any situation where there is overcapacity, mills will seek to ease that. If the Deputy is asking whether there are long-term supply contracts with mills the answer is "no". Otherwise, there would not be weekly timber auctions. Everybody sees what comes up but this is a two-way street. If one starts giving contracts to mills, then other mills will not get comparable contracts. Therefore, the safest way out of it is to have an open, transparent contract system which is working.