Pippa Hackett (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

That does not help, but there is also the issue that there are approximately 5,000 ha already licensed in the past year or so where landowners and farmers are sitting on a licence. My Department has written to those individuals to find out what the issue is, whether we can help them and to ask why they are not planting. The Senator is right about confidence, and we need to work collectively to improve that.