Mr. Brian Brady:

The Deputy has brought up a valid point that what we are after is a way that electricity lines and forestry can coexist. There was huge devastation to the forestry industry in Storm Éowyn. A total of €500 million of stock or value was lost, with 24,000-odd ha damaged. I think I have seen a more recent number that is higher than that. Climate change is affecting every industry, not just electricity. This is about how we design resilient forests and resilient corridors that allow us to coexist. Forestry is critically important for carbon capture and so on and it is part of our plan as well. In what we are looking to design, our input into the legislation that is being designed would be to accommodate all of those-----