Mr. John Redmond:

I will take that question because Mr. Moore is having technical difficulty with his microphone. I thank the Deputy for the question. On what the Department is doing about afforestation, in 2021 Project Woodland was established by the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, to deal with reducing the licensing backlog and set up a shared national approach to developing a new forest strategy. As part of that, a new forestry programme is being developed and is aimed to be in place from 2023 onwards. That will provide new incentives for landowners to engage with afforestation. Importantly, there will be, as part of Project Woodland, a process review looking at the regulatory regime that is in place. That is being finalised and should be published in the next two weeks to look at what we are doing and to make sure we are maintaining our commitments on environmental requirements and compliance.