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

The Department gives us a dashboard, which is very helpful. In November 2019 the number of felling licences issued, with fewer staff members and fewer ecologists and less everything, is greater than the number of licences issued in November 2020, even with the heap of extra staff. That is unusual. This year there were fewer licences issued in November than in 2019, even though the number of staff has been ramped up by double or treble.