Mr. Colm Hayes:

I certainly have the figures for 2020 but I will review them for the other years as well. To respond to the Deputy's question about the oldest licence application, I am working this off a page here, but it looks to me that about 40% of the licences issued last year were also applied for last year. Some were applied for in 2019, some in 2018. Looking, for example, at the 2,700 felling licences we have on hand at the moment, 123 are from 2018, so the other 2,600 have come in at some point since 1 January 2019, and the majority of those came in in 2020. That will give the Deputy an idea. I am sure there is an outlier of a licence application going back five years. It is inevitable. Sometimes licences sit on our system as well and may be moribund but, in broad terms, we are looking at 98% of all felling licences on hand right now having come in at some point in the past two years and I would say 60% of those having come in in 2020. That might give the Deputy an indication.