Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

They will harvest maybe 70 acres of trees but leave the rest of the plantation, so that we have piecemeal harvesting of trees as opposed to being able to clean out 200 or 300 acres, if it makes sense to do that in one year, and averaging the income over four or five years to take into account the taxation treatment. There is real frustration in the forestry sector on this issue. To be fair to the Department of Finance, it has been unbelievably accommodating on issues we have raised with them, the proof of that being in the past number of years. There are issues relating to this particular request, but we will keep working with the Department of Finance until the budget. I do not, however, want to over-promise on this, as I am not sure it is going to be agreed.