Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Has the Minister of State any information to hand on what the capacity of the mills we have in the State would be if they all worked at full capacity and whether the supply can be organised in order that it meets that capacity? Interestingly enough, in view of the debate on the previous question, selling to the primary market, which, outside of the State, is obviously the UK market, is not a difficulty. The Minister and I visited a mill at which they said that getting timber through all the formalities was, I think, a 50-second job. That is a good news. This is therefore not a problem of Brexit; it is a problem with getting the supply. Is there or will there be a matching between capacity and the ability of the licensing system to license enough timber, allowing that the producers such as Coillte have enough timber to license?

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