Mr. Seamus Dunne:

The Chairman is right. We all act under the environmental impact assessment, EIA, directive.

Initial afforestation is an annexe to development under the EIA directive and building private roads is an annexe to development under that directive. We consider them to be projects under the habitats directive. We would be open to looking at other member states. I am on working group 4 of Project Woodland, and part of that is an end-to-end review of processes. We are absolutely open to considering this. We would need a very detailed analysis of how other countries comply with the EIA directive and the habitats directive. We certainly do not want to follow another country that is in difficulty with the European Union, and we know a number of countries are in difficulty with the European Union at the moment.