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

The Minister can see the suspicions people have that it was so soon after that announcement when the final deal with Gresham House was signed off on. The timing of the Gresham House deal does not make sense otherwise, because it was just a week before the new state aid rules would come into place. Coillte has cited those rules as the reason it needed this private entity in the first place.