Mr. Teige Ryan:

I will take the Deputy's question with regard to the nurseries. It is very simple. The nurseries produce plants three years in advance of each planting season. We pitch our production on the programme for Government afforestation targets. The reality is the nurseries would be wiped out by now because of the fall in afforestation numbers. We would have made it very clear to the Department over recent years that, as in the case of the industry, if the level of planting dipped below 6,000 ha, we would be in serious trouble. The reality is we should be finished and gone now.