Mr. Kieran Kehoe:

First, regarding the trees, I did not in any way question the value of a life in relation to a tree. I did not do so and I would rather that it would not be assumed as such. What I did say is that we have a phenomenal number of healthy trees in our country and if a tree is healthy and not at risk of falling it should not be taken out just because of its proximity to a road. In that case, there is no risk to life from that tree. Regarding the response, I have to clarify something and correct the Deputy. As the person in charge of arranging the response both nationally and locally for the local authorities, from the Monday that we were advised when this was happening, as I explained in my opening statement, we had crews waiting for the red warning to go. Every local authority's crews mobilised within one hour of that red warning moving away.