Mr. Simon White:

That budget will not come from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It has to come from central funds through local government because it will have to be dealt with locally. I drive local roads and because I know about ash dieback, I am terrified in a storm. I look at every tree. I understand that people are dying. People have died in forests cutting their own trees. We understand this. We are desperately aware of the dangers. We keep speaking about health and safety issues. We cannot cut our own trees with our chainsaws. In the past month, 108 trees on my land were cut to put in a railway and it had to be done with big machines which had shears. Even then, some of the trees were disintegrating when they were grabbed and people 100 ft away were being hit. It is dangerous and people will die. We keep saying this. We have to prevent this from happening. Farmers do not have the resources. I have 40 roadside ash trees that I will have to take down. I am scratching my head wondering how I am supposed to do it. I am not allowed to do it with a chainsaw.

I might injure myself or someone working with me. We need huge investment tying into that. That needs to be done immediately but we need to do our forests and plantations. We need to get this land back into production. There are people on their uppers. I have forgotten one or two of the Deputy's questions because there were so many.