Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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We should be. Our message to farmers with a licence is that the rates are now 66% higher for many of those than they were just two months ago and everybody who plants this month or planted last month will now get those premiums tax free for 20 years rather than for 15 years as would have been the case if they planted last year. My clear message to everyone who is sitting on a licence is that it makes absolute sense to engage with one's forester and get planting. We have the systems in place for them to do so and we want them to do it.