Mr. Gerry Britchfield:

If it is 20 years then one would get to a stage where farmers would be clear felling and thus supplying significant amounts of saw log to the market. There are questions that the industry must grapple with. How do we mobilise the supply that farmers have planted? How do we make sure that the farmer thins the crop the he planted 20 years ago? If he does not do that then it will have an impact on the amount of saw log that he will produce in 20 years' time. That is a challenge for the industry. Coillte is willing to play its part in mobilising private supply. We need to do that first and foremost. The immediate challenge is to make sure that the farmer has the incentive to thin his crop so that the pulp would not come to market and that the crop can then grow on.