Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Our second session will be confined to an hour's duration. We are joined by the Minister of State with responsibility for land use and biodiversity, Senator Hackett. She is welcome and I thank her for taking up our invitation. We wish her well in her brief and look forward to having a good working relationship with her. I also welcome Mr. Colm Hayes, assistant secretary for rural development, and Mr. Séamus Dunne, head of the forestry inspectorate.

I invite the Minister of State to make her opening statement.