Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Department officials this afternoon. I want to pick up on a number of points the officials spoke about. They mentioned how we should be talking up the positive story around forestry. I talk to farmers from my neck of the woods in County Wexford and from other parts of the country who have contacted me because they know I am on the agricultural committee. There is very little positivity when it comes to forestry because they see the delays waiting on plantation licences, felling licences and everything like that. The licences in July and August have been mentioned so I do not want to go back over that. There is huge frustration in the groups and organisations in and around forestry.

They believe they are not being listened to. One of the officials has said that there is not an easy fix to the problem. If there were an easy or quick fix, what would it be?