Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

-----gas reduction is a short-term measure. We will be locked into fossil fuel use for at least 20 years if we increase our gas production. We have been told in replies to parliamentary questions and by meeting industry representatives that private planters of forests cannot get licences. The size of the backlog shows that they are not the problem. There are so many applications for private planting of forests that people are screaming at us to do something about it. I do not think that is the problem and I am surprised by a few of Ms Donnelly's answers on those issues.