Mr. Colm Hayes:

No. It is not as though the 4,000 licences are the same block. It is a continually changing block of new applications coming in and licences going out. We will never reach a point when we are at zero. That would be impossible. It would be like coming into work in the morning at saying that there is no work on the desk for the day. There is always work there that has to be done. If we ever reach a point where we are at zero, I will have a lot of forestry inspectors and ecologists with nothing to do and it will be a real crisis then because it would mean there would be nothing coming in by way of application. The figure was 4,700 back in October. We have issued 1,200 licences since then but these are replaced by some 900 new applications. That is the way it works and the way it will continue.