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Our European colleagues see no need to stimulate more new planting, as they have enough forests and do not see why we should put money into expanding our cover, so a drop-off in new planting may be on the horizon.
We appreciate the need for flexibility, particularly when the Executive is cutting new ground, but the Parliament should be in on such dramatic changes.
However, we have to find ways of doing that other than by creating a new status. Our basic objective is to support marriage.Shiona Baird asked about public attitudes.
He suggested that a benefit of the proposed new policy is that it would weed out some applications and ensure that new applications from the industry are substantive.
Although we want there to be parity of esteem, the Parliament is new, shiny and glossy; local government's image is not new, shiny and glossy, so people's focus perhaps will be more on the Parliament.