Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is the most constructive proposal I have heard all evening at the committee. That is what we were and will be discussing with Coillte. We will be discussing the options, the potential and the mechanisms we can put in place to work together with Coillte, with the State supporting it, and also farmers supporting it, and potentially how there can be community involvement. We will look at all of those options. We will be exploring that. We are certainly open to any ideas and proposals, and fleshing out potential options for how we could do that in working towards that objective of supporting Coillte in afforestation, and family farms in particular alongside that.