Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 221: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the person under whose instructions Coillte was operating when issuing trespass orders on protestors at an endangered national monument and adjoining lands and esker at Rath Lugh, County Meath, recently, when in fact Coillte no longer owns the land, it having been purchased by Meath County Council and the National Roads Authority; if her attention has been drawn to the decision of such orders being issued; and if she has given an instruction to her Department official or to Coillte, a wholly State-owned company, to withdraw the orders. [10784/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Coillte Teoranta was established as a private commercial company under the Forestry Act, 1988 and day-to-day operational matters are the responsibility of the company. I understand that, while 3.86 hectares in the area in question were acquired by Meath County Council, just over 21 hectares at that location remain in the ownership of Coillte. I also understand that the request to vacate the property, issued by Coillte to those encamped on its lands, referred specifically to Coillte lands.