Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not have the figures to hand at the moment. Part of our concern and part of the problem here is because there is so much administration involved for quite a small plantation, they are not happening, even though farmers might want to do them and want them to happen. I am not aware of many such applications in the system. We would like to have many applications like that but for a small area, we will not see them unless we make it as practicable as possible. That is why I hope that by doing this and by taking this positive and progressive approach we can really encourage this type of plantation.