Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Does the witness not see, to put it mildly, what can be perceived as a tension and sometimes a direct contradiction between Coillte's mandate as the stewards of the public forest estate, with all it entails, and the commercial imperative that is pushing the company towards wind farming and so on? In some cases there are quite damaging consequences for the environment. I have not even mentioned issues such as the sale of forest land at Bellinaboy to facilitate Shell and all that it entails. Is there not quite a stark contradiction?