Pippa Hackett (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The formal submission has been made and we are confident that we have addressed all of the concerns the Commission had in the informal engagement. It is unfair for the Senator to say that the forestry sector is in crisis. I have been visiting forests around the country, and most recently at the weekend in my constituency. There are a lot of happy foresters out there. We are going to have a lot of happy foresters in the future. We have a balance to strike here and we have a programme that must meet the increasingly challenged space that is environmental legislation on environmental conditions. We believe we have done that and we look forward to farmers of the future, young and old, engaging in forestry.