Mr. Mike Glennon:

A perfect functioning market is when half of the material is coming from the private sector and half from Coillte. That gives people options and lets a market dynamic come into place. In the UK or Scotland, it is half private and half state. That is the right balance. Neither being too dominant is the right solution. When there are equal players in a marketplace, that keeps everybody right. The private guys have served us well and Coillte has served us well. At first, the issues with the felling licences was not Coillte’s; it was the Department’s. It is an important difference.