Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

There are a couple of things. The first is that every tree that is harvested needs to be replanted. Every forest that is harvested has to be replanted. The second is that this is a voluntary land use for people. We are dependent entirely on the applications people make and the licensing process has had its difficulties, as the Cathaoirleach knows. We have improved that and have a much better programme now, but there are environmental conditionalities that make it difficult to plant in places where we used to. For example, we used to plant on deep peat, which was probably not a great idea, but we are not allowed to do that anymore.