Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

We both have, so let us speak as people with that interest. It is bad advice to tell people to hang on so they may get a grant for thinning, because as the years pass, the trees become less valuable unless they are thinned at the right time. It is not possible to say wait and see and the grant will come in due course. I want people to take the decisions now and get the value of the thinnings and the improved value of the timber later, which will be enhanced if they thin at the right time. There is no time to wait around.

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