Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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At the moment wood pulp has no market. It cannot be sold. Private operators are thinning forests at the moment and cannot sell the product. They are piling it up. Coillte is allowing that to happen. I blame Coillte for it. Thinning at the moment has no economic value. People planted forests in the expectation that when they thinned their forests, it would have a value at ten, 15 or 20 years. They are thinning the forests and even when Coillte was buying it, it was not covering the cost of transportation. However, it has stopped buying the wood pulp now. It is questionable whether this is creating an economic value.