Mr. Pat Glennon:

I have an important point on that. If a person has 100 acres or 100 ha to plant, or whatever measurement terminology one wants to use, we feel the blanket approach to the rule of having 15% hardwood, 15% biodiversity and 70% conifer will end up with us having to plant hardwoods on ground that will never grow hardwoods, only weeds. It is the wrong tree in the wrong place for the wrong reason. The Deputy's point is exactly right. Sitka spruce or conifers will grow there but hardwoods will struggle to survive in the example given by him.