Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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It should be tripling it because we are in trouble. My next question is on the number of licences in the system. Mr. Hayes has stated in his submission that the figure is 6,119, of which Coillte have put in 1,842, and I know it has put in some lately, which leaves 4,277. Mr. Hayes will recall we spoke about this last November. He said that there were 1,900 licences backlogged, that there were 2,500 which had no problem, and that I did not word my comments correctly. When that was added up, it came to 4,300 or 4,400. We have made no headway in the backlog of licences whatsoever, when one adds that.