Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)

Please forgive me for suggesting that when it takes 40 years to produce a crop, it seems strange for the Department to wait another five years before deciding what to do. Forestry planted in the next five years will be there for the next 30 to 40 years, so a lot of peatland will be in forestry and we do not know what the science in the report will say. There is a lot of scepticism about whether it is a good policy to pursue.