Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am not blaming people for doing it but I am saying it is what is happening. I take Mr. Callanan's point that there is work, but if I go to my parish, quite a bit of which is planted, there is not one human being I know who works in forestry, unless there is someone driving a lorry around somewhere whom I do not know about. Generally, that is all we have: guys driving trucks, hauling the timber out when it is finished after 40 years. The problem we have is that there is such a tiny amount of work compared to if the land were put to any other use.