Mr. Simon White:

If I want to take it up, I have 20 acres - 8 ha - of my own. I have lost €100,000 worth of timber on my 23-year-old plantation. That is what it would be worth if I was harvesting it. To go into RUS, I would have to invest money. I would only be given €1,000 per hectare. This is €8,000 to take out my trees. This is not a fraction of the cost in today's climate. We all know the way fuel prices and the cost of machinery are going up. When it comes to taking those trees out, every day it gets more difficult. There are health and safety issues involved in dealing with this. I would have to invest something like €20,000 to €40,000 more just to get the trees out on land from which I will get no benefit until those trees come to fruition.