Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

We are trying to incentivise the planting of broadleaf trees but there has been a lot of narrative about the replanting obligation. Farmers are reluctant to plant in circumstances where they would have to keep the land planted in perpetuity. The difficulty from a public policy point of view is that the objective is to increase the overall stock of trees and if we do not have the replanting obligation the risk is people will start to deforest and that could match our afforestation.