Mr. Colm Hayes:

I agree, but at our previous meeting with the committee Deputy Fitzmaurice used the phrase "stuck in the system". If we look at the afforestation licences that issued this morning, some of the applications would have come in four or five weeks ago. I do not regard those as being stuck in the system. Absolutely not. These are applications that came in and were processed and the licences were issued as quickly as they possibly could be. One has to wait at least a minimum of 30 days. Of course, there will be some applications that would go back to last year, some going back to 2019, and unfortunately there may even be some dating back to 2018, but the phrase "stuck in the system" does not relate to something that is applied for and issued one or two months later. There are examples of those kinds of licences being issued every month.