Mr. Colm Hayes:

The answer remains the same. In those early months in 2019, there were very large numbers of thinning licences for Coillte, which inflated everything from the number of licences to the number of hectares. I would also point out that the early period of 2019 predates the legal judgments that have knocked us back on these particular issues. We are in a new phase because of the impact of those legal judgments. They forced us to change our processes and procedures and do things very differently. Comparisons going back beyond those judgements involve a different time. What we are about is getting the whole thing back on track to reach the levels we and the sector want to reach. This is what every effort is going into. I might pass the question about the role of the ecologists to Mr. Dunne.