Mr. Mike Quinn:

I will try to reply to the matters raised in sequence, if I may. In terms of the biomass clear felling, we are talking about stumps and roots. On what we currently get from Coillte, we will receive about 20,000 tonnes this year. This is the first year we have received anything from Coillte. Some 50,000 tonnes will be wood and 5,000 tonnes will be brash. The brash is made up of the first and second thinnings of the tree. We have tried using stumps in the past because obviously we have a lot of wood on our own land. The problem is that there is lots of soil and stones, etc., in the wood and up to now we have not been able to find a machine that is capable of crushing and chipping it as the wood is very hard. We had a demonstration last week from a German company which now appears to have a machine that is capable of chipping it. If that is successful, our intent would be to maximise the biomass out-take which would include the stumps and the roots, but that is a relatively recent development in terms of capability.