Mr. Nicholas Tarrant:

To build on what Mr. Brady said in his answer to Deputy Stanley on our resources, we have grown our resources quite a bit when it comes to dedicated timber cutting specialist contractors. They are specialist contractors. We are looking to expand those. We went out for a new tender in 2024 to expand our contractor base in that area because we know we need to continue to grow the resource in that area. We have availed of this new apprenticeship programme and we are building to grow this. We are also looking at bringing people in from overseas to help buttress this resource. We have targeted measures for this winter and we have brought in additional resources.

On the specifics of urban trees, I do not know if I am able to comment or perhaps Mr. Brady can on destabilising the trees. It would be unusual in general for someone to take branches out of a tree and destabilise it. They have training. If there is something specific we are happy to follow up separately to the meeting.