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"I am very glad to hear the Commission's reply because the funding that Coillte has was set up by the state, it was the state that set Coillte up. It is a semi-state company and it is responsible for forestry development. Now it actually used the money it was getting from these interest payments on land that they were purchasing. What is interesting as well as that the chairman, Ray MacSharry is a former European Commissioner for Agriculture and he is still refusing to acknowledge the fact that Coillte is a public entity and that it is not entitled to such payments. At a recent meeting with Coillte I was told that the government is gong to challenge this decision. I believe it is actually a waste of taxpayers' money to challenge it because I think it is quite clear to anybody with an ounce of common sense that they are not entitled to this money. What is really devastating is that they have actually prevented the people who should have got the money from rural depopulation for ensuring that people who did lose income actually got the money and I would like to see the Commission ensure that Coillte get no more money because they were not entitled to it in the first place and that they have to pay it back. They are now saying that the state will have to pay it back which is not acceptable either."@en1
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