Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Forestry is slightly different to commercial development because someone can get a planting licence. If every other measure was put in front of that land, and the farmer was granted a forestry licence in error, for example, and then the authority realised it was in a hen harrier designated zone, it would have to say, "Sorry, we cannot allow it go ahead". That is really what the witnesses are referring to.