Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

To clarify, when we compare our stock of forestry to the EU stock of forestry, we are not comparing planting rates; we are comparing the overall stock. The overall stock is an accident of history combined with whatever we have done in the programme for the last few years. It would be over-ambitious to expect that we could increase forestry to 35% in the next period, given the resources we have and the difficulties we are having in meeting our targets as they stand. Increasing the overall stock to 18% is a very substantial and ambitious target. Reaching the 8,000 ha per annum that we are required to reach in the context of our climate action plan is going to be a real challenge. I have been challenged on that today and on our failure to meet the targets we have already, so I think they are sufficiently ambitious and we have to reconfigure our programme to try to reach them.