Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Without a doubt, we did not plant as much forestry last year as we would have liked to have seen. The committee is well aware, because this is something on which it has put a very strong focus, of the challenges we had with licensing and which, over the course of the past year, we have been working our way out of. Thankfully, we are gathering momentum and making a real impact and we will see real, significant progress on that over the course of this year. We had maybe 500-odd - I am trying to find the figure here - afforestation licences last year. That equated to about 8,000 ha. There was-----