Coillte has got rid of Coillte Nature, its not-for-profit climate division. We are told it is being absorbed into the wider organisation. We are told that the need for a separate nature team has been superseded by the overall Coillte strategic vision, which was published in 2022. Yet, that strategic vision - that very document - spotlighted Coillte Nature as delivering nature projects at scale. Only last year, Coillte Nature signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Parks and Wildlife Service on restoring biodiversity on Coillte lands, so how is it that a division of Coillte that was central to delivering nature-based solutions up to one year ago is suddenly dispensable? Is the Government comfortable with the decision to quietly delete Coillte Nature, a decision that was taken while the new Government was actually forming? Will the Government, as shareholders of Coillte, demand that the organisation reconsider its abandonment of its nature obligations?

I am happy to answer this question. This structural change is very much seen by Coillte as bringing the whole area of biodiversity and its importance into the heart of the Coillte organisation and it is not in any way a diminution of the importance of the work that Coillte Nature did previously. It is just a structural change within that organisation, and the key focus and importance of that within the Coillte organisation.

Did Coillte tell the Minister that it was doing it?

In February, yes. It is very much still a focus. I can reassure the Deputy of that.