Ms Sin?ad King:

I will back up Ms Corcoran. The forms she spoke about are annual partnership forms. It is said we should meet in person or speak on the phone or via Internet about those forms. The in-person calls have not happened. More face-to-face contact is proposed for the future, but those calls have not happened for the past 20 years.

I do not think that is strong enough. I think the arbitration clause needs to be removed from the Coillte contracts going forward. Also, in 2017, there was an Oireachtas questioning of Coillte and afterwards an internal review of Coillte was performed by KPMG. One of the findings of the review was that Coillte should present annual financial statements to each farmer. In the following years, that has not happened. Can it be questioned on that? We have no faith or trust in Coillte. The Senator mentioned face-to-face meetings. That is not good enough. Coillte has failed us at every turn up to this point.