Ms Geraldine O'Sullivan:

It can be airborne as well, particularly the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle. The main and highest-risk pathway is in the importation of timber, but it is airborne, however. We are seeing that. It happened in a workshop in Scandinavia at the end of last year, and they are now beginning to understand the distances. We are learning continuously about the bark beetles and the distance, but they can be airborne. As Mr. Gorman said, they also travel on machinery and transportation. There are multiple ways. Even the Scottish forestry authority said that the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle hitchhiked onto a consignment of material. That is how it was identified in Scotland in 2023. It was not a breeding pair; it was just identified. There are, therefore, multiple pathways for the pest. The pathway of greatest risk, however, is the importation of timber. That is the highest-risk one.