Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would be less kindly towards a person who knocked down a forest without a licence, but I appreciate the Minister of State's point. We did in fact discuss the one-year limit, and I accept the Minister of State's statement about different forest practices and so on. I will not press either of those amendments, but I would be harder on somebody who knocked down a forest and was allowed off under ministerial discretion, whereby he or she "may" require its replacement. I am not pressing amendments Nos. 32 or 33.