Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Ms Gray, Ms Hurley and Mr. Carlin are very welcome. We had a fairly robust exchange at the previous meeting. In that context, we all recognise that we have a job to do. They are our guests and they are very welcome.

I have just three or four questions and I will keep them directed to Ms Gray's opening statement rather than straying beyond that because that is fair and reasonable. I will put the questions to Ms Gray as they occur to me.

Pulling up on some of the commentary in Ms Gray's opening statement, she talks about Coillte's ambitions to enable the creation of 100,000 ha of new forest by 2050, half of which would be native woodland. That is a very ambitious target. I presume there are incremental reviews of all that. There has to be. Could Ms Gray set out the different initiatives Coillte plans in order to deliver that target? She has touched on some of them, but there will be many synergies and many ways in which Coillte might deliver. Ultimately, it has now set itself this target of 100,000 ha by 2050, which is not that long away, in terms of growing forestry. Maybe we will take just one question at a time. Ms Gray might touch on that one first.