Mr. Fergal Leamy:

There is a cascade on the use of timber. In the first instance, we prioritise timber which is going into value added products. There are two facilities which we own, as well as others such as Masonite, which add value to much of that pulp which would be used to generate energy. There are times when there is excess fibre and we would certainly be interested in providing that. We have done this for Bord na Móna in the past couple of years and we will do as much as we can in driving that excess pulp. The core material we have, 1 million cu. m, goes into these facilities, adding value to the product and exporting it. The excess of that is about 300,000 cu. m or 400,000 cu. m which will grow over time. Some of these plants need between 500,000 and 1 million cu. m over that period. The sheer scale of this is the challenge and the issue of getting it from this island. We also need to be working on longer-term crops more suited to biomass. That is an angle on which we are giving support to others.