Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to come back to the ash dieback because, again, it is just not being resolved. I have a list of here and I will just give one example. They have had issues with the ash dieback for four years. They first reported it on 14 March 2018. As the initial reconstituting and underplanting scheme, RUS, was disbanded, they tried to address the problem through the woodland improvement scheme. That was approved by the forestry service, but the accompanying felling licence was never approved by the forestry service. We hear claims that there is no application at hand that predates 2020. Is that really the case or instead, are the applications on hand that were delayed because of the abandonment of the initial RUS scheme now categorised as being post 2020?