Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In the context of the areas for which the Department currently has targets, afforestation was mentioned. The programme for Government has a target of 8,000 ha per year. The Department just about hit 2,000 ha last year and might not even get to that figure this year. The position in respect of organic targets is similar. The Government is wildly missing all its targets in a number of areas. Do the witnesses consider that putting a target in place first and following that up with a plan to achieve it, rather than putting in place a plan that will allow us to set an ambitious target that is actually going to be met, may not be the best approach?