Mr. Jason Fleming:

To be fair, when I was over there they were not inclined to talk about the spruce bark beetle because the group I was over was a transport group. The work mainly concerned roads. To be fair, I brought up the issue of bark beetle on a regular basis and they did not really want to engage on it, to be honest. As Mr. Gorman has said, that is one for the task force that is to be set up to review.

On the issue of imports, do we honestly think that if the spruce bark beetle was rampant in Ireland, the Scottish mills would come here to buy timber? The members all know the answer to that is "No". We are an island and we have a chance to keep this out. We should be doing our utmost to keep it out. We had a scenario where bluetongue was found in a cow over in Kent, and all imports were stopped overnight. What is the difference between forestry and beef and dairy? As I said in the beginning,-----