Mr. Pat Collins:

An independent body needs to be brought in to look at the accounting and how the timber is measured and sold. There is no transparency in this. A lot of people have timber taken away and they do not know where they are in this regard.

Questions have arisen as to whether Coillte has adhered to good forestry practice management. I do not think it has in some cases. There are a lot of issues of mismanagement of crops throughout the country. Many people feel aggrieved by this because this is their income, they signed up for this for their retirement and they have been left hanging out here because there is nothing for them. There is no pot of gold at the end in terms of what they had anticipated was going be there for them. This was signed up to by people for a son or a daughter or maybe for retirement and to enable them to go into a nursing home or whatever the case may be. This has not happened and people are in a very vulnerable state and clarity needs to be brought to this.