Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would like the witnesses to clarify something to ensure I picked it up right. Generally, when a person plants trees, they decide to go for ash, oak or whatever. The person employs a forestry operator who will do up the paperwork, look after them for a certain number of years and submit the proposal to the Department for the farmer. The witnesses said the Department decided what trees would be planted. Did it say the witnesses had to plant ash or were they looking to plant ash?