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

The Minister said this is not his favoured option. Would a good way to stop it not be to tell investors that we do not want them to invest in this fund, in case there are other State-owned bodies or banks that we have shares in that might be considering this, to stay away from it? We could tell them that it has universal opposition from environmentalists, farmers, local communities and the timber sector and that it will actually damage our prospects of reaching our afforestation targets, and the message from the Government is not to invest in this because it is not its favoured option.