Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

When the officials are answering questions, will they indicate who is going to answer first. I ask that the answers could be kept fairly brief because there is a huge number of questions to be asked by the committee members. As I said in my opening remarks, we are a long way off hitting the targets we set six months ago. I would like to see a focus. The question was asked as to why there has been a huge drop in farmers planting trees. We will go back to that because we have two hours to deal with everything. Why farmers are deserting afforestation is an issue that must be addressed today.