Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will not ask Mr. O'Driscoll to answer two further questions now, but he can send his answers to the committee in writing. If he wants to answer verbally, though, that would be fine. The Department used to have a role in a great deal of forestry land, much of which it transferred to Coillte down the years. Is it still the registered owner of any of the lands that Coillte believes is its own? In particular, Mr. O'Driscoll might send me a note on Rathlaoise wood in Portarlington. Coillte claims that it owns that, but someone else has said that the Department's name is on the title deeds. Coillte is trying to sell it.

Mr. O'Driscoll might want to give either a detailed note or speak now on my next question. What are the Department's plans for its major office in Portlaoise? It is leasing all over the town. The issue is a hardy annual for this committee. The intriguing point is that there are other Departments in the Department's office in Portlaoise. I am a local Deputy and do not understand why the Departments of Social Protection and Justice and Equality and the Probation Service are in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's building while the Department's own staff are in six or seven other locations. What is the position with the extension? Has it been paused?