Mr. Colm Hayes:

I will go back to the shareholder letter of expectation because it informs the instruction or direction from the shareholding Ministers or Departments to Coillte. It asks Coillte "to develop initiatives to support and realise the planting of such forests to a meaningful scale in the years ahead, whether as part of its core business or as a participant in a subsidiary or partnership enterprise". Coillte's responded to that through its strategy which outlined three broad ways in which it would achieve it. Those were partnership with other public bodies that are landowners, such as Bord na Móna; the establishment of a native woodland trust, which is a not-for-profit initiative to plant native woodlands; and the investment fund, which was the third activity it decided on. The Department did not give any specific direct instruction and did not have any specific view on how Coillte should do it. We trust the board of Coillte and ask it to deliver those-----