Mr. Tim Cullinan:

The Deputy raised a lot of issues and the first point I want to come back to is the green diesel and he is correct that we cannot operate in farming or in heavy machinery in any areas without an adequate supply of green diesel and that is critically important to the sector going forward. The point about food deliveries is correct, that cannot happen without infrastructure, trucks and fuel supply. Another important point the Deputy raised is around the forestry and I would like to put forward a proposal because we now have numerous problems in forestry. The licensing issue is still a major problem. As the Deputy rightly stated, there is afforestation licensing, thinning roads, harvesting the forest, and we have a serious problem with ash dieback. We have asked the Minister of State to come to a forum. We organised a climate summit in early January and brought all of the actors in the chain together, which proved to be a very successful day. I am asking the committee members for their support in asking the Minister of State, Senator Pippa Hackett, to come to a forestry summit. We will organise this but it is very important to have Coillte, and departmental officials present at that summit as well. We need to everyone come together. This has been going on for long enough now. We have a potential fund of €1.3 billion, we want to see where that is at, we cannot continue having investment funds coming in with the potential of being able to draw down the premiums which is in place for farmers. I would like to put that proposal this evening. The Deputy mentioned a very important point around Brexit and I want to make a point about the Brexit Adjustment Reserve, BAR, fund. We have put numerous proposals to the Government on this looking at diversification in several sectors within agriculture and, to date, we have had no response. I would appreciate any help from the committee in that area also.

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