Mr. Fergal Leamy:

Brexit is potentially a significant risk for our industry, as I mentioned earlier. We are working with our customers to figure out how to ensure our timber can continue to cross to the UK. We are seen by many of our customers in the UK, such as B&Q, Travis Perkins and others, as a home-grown supplier of timber. The Irish timber industry has built a significant presence in the UK because of our service level. The biggest threat we have is that we will be seen as a foreign supplier if there are delays in trucks going across the Irish Sea. There are 40,000 truck movements of timber each year. If we cannot service our customers within 24 hours of an order, it is really quite challenging. We are making a lot of progress with Revenue, for example, on understanding what we need to do with our systems. We have had some very good conversations. As a business and industry, we need to be allowed to continue to have those engagements. We need to plan for a worst-case scenario because, as business managers, we need to make sure we are prepared for it. We are putting a huge amount of effort into doing that at the moment. We are looking at the UK to ensure we build up our capability there to make sure those markets stay open. It will always be the largest market for timber products for this country because it is the second largest importer of timber products in the world. It is right on our doorstep. It is crucially important that we build that market as we have done with the sawmilling sector over recent years and make sure we respond appropriately to the challenge of Brexit.