Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Hurley for her statement. There is one issue she did not refer to in her statement about which this committee would like to hear, namely Coillte's plans with respect to Coillte Nature. The company has exciting and ambitious plans in that regard so I ask her, for the benefit of the committee, to elaborate on them. If we are to meet the ambition of the State in respect of forestry and tree planting in the next few decades, we must get going and I see Coillte Nature as having a very significant role to play in that. I would appreciate it if Ms Hurley would elaborate on that.

I acknowledge that she truncated her statement because of time constraints but one area that she skipped over quickly was the three strains that Coillte has taken clones of and perhaps she could elaborate on the company's plans in that regard as well.