Ms Bernie Gray:

The level of afforestation in Ireland is low, relative to Europe. Ireland has the lowest level of forest cover. The level of forest concentration in Ireland currently is not just on the west coast, but Wicklow, as a county, has one of the highest levels of forest cover, on the east coast.

The other point I would make is that the main landowners in the country are farmers.

The forestry programme launched last year was intended to incentivise farmers to afforest their land. If that happened, that would reduce-----