Pippa Hackett (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There is a replanting obligation. One has to replant anything that is felled. There will be a continuity of supply in that sense. I suppose there is a certain area of land - I do not have the figure on me - under Coillte management that might not be replanted because it has been on the wrong type of land, it is too close to certain areas, there is too deep peat, etc., but the replanting obligation would secure the current state. If we meet our targets, we will have more timber. The forecast over the next 20 years to 2040 is a doubling of the amount of volume that will become available and that will feed into a sector in the next couple of decades that we need to support. I believe we need to develop the markets here in Ireland for that timber.