Ms Imelda Hurley:

Some 20% of our estate is managed with nature and biodiversity as the primary objective. I will come to specifics around recreation, but the context is important. Our short-term target is to increase that to 30% and our long-term target is to increase it to 50%. However, it is also important to say, that the "other 50%" - if I can use that term for a moment - of the estate will also support nature and biodiversity. It is a question of what the primary objective of each forest is.

On recreation areas, we have 12 forest parks today, including "beyond the trees" at Avondale Forest Park that was mentioned earlier. We also have approximately 260 recreation forests today and our target is to double that and increase it to approximately 500. We will work towards that in the next few years. We have 3,000 km of way-marked trails, throughout the country with the result that the overall estate is open access. People are welcome to visit the estate. We ask them to observe the health and safety measures in place when forestry activities are ongoing. The whole estate is available for people to visit, although there are areas people are more likely to visit such as the forest parks and recreation areas.