Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will put it a different way. If I go back to that €6,744, if one has lands that are at scale with a partner that is funding into this new so-called "Coillte nua" entity, Mr. Carlin is telling me that the smaller forestry companies, foresters and contractors are more agile and leaner. I remain to be convinced of what Mr. Carlin is saying there, and I say that respectfully. If Coillte is competing in that space for that €6,744 and it has got the personnel and the access to equipment and machinery that it will begin to build up, I cannot see how Coillte could not but squeeze out the smaller operators unless they get subsumed by Coillte and begin to become price-takers on contracts that so-called "Coillte nua" begins to control. In other words, Coillte nua would control the entire forestry sector and there would be a squeezing out of the small private forestry companies. It is a genuine fear that I have.