Mr. Colm Hayes:

The ratio of the volume of Coillte logs to privately sourced logs in terms of supply to the mills is about 3:1, so three quarters of the logs that go into the mills are sourced from Coillte and about a quarter are sourced from the private sector. I am not sure if we have a figure for the tonnage imported. We can explore that. I will let Mr. Dunne respond directly to the Brexit question.

As for the number of licences needed to achieve the targets, it is a stated goal of successive forestry programmes to try to increase the average size of a plantation applied for when it comes to afforestation. People often draw comparisons with Scotland, but in Scotland it is not unusual to have sites that are a couple of hundred hectares when it comes to afforestation. Our average is 6 ha. I think we had a goal in the previous mid-term review to get that up to around 8 ha. Working off that figure, and the annual figure being 8,000, we are looking at 1,000 to 1,500 applications.

Deputy Carthy asked a question which I think I have answered, but I wish to inform him that there were 4,436 licences on hand as of this morning. We ran these figures again this morning. They were 2,700 for felling, 1,691 for roads and 1,040 for afforestation. That is a slight update on the statement before the committee because we ran the figures just before coming in this morning.

May I make just one further comment? It touches on Ms Kelly's issue and the-----