Mr Green will appear on Monday when public hearings continue into the circumstances of the mill’s closure, sale and dismantling by owners, environmentalists Graeme Wood and Jan Cameron.

Mr Wood and Ms Cameron are yet to appear before the inquiry, and were not on the witness list released yesterday.

Mr Green, who was the Resources Minister at the time of the sale, will join members of the forest industry and academic Jacki Schirmer.

On Tuesday the inquiry will be held in Triabunna, hearing from local business people and Glamorgan Spring Bay Council general manager David Medcalf.

Last month, the inquiry heard the decision of former timber company Gunns to sell the Triabunna wood chip mill to Ms Cameron and Ms Wood was a strategic move by Gunns boss Greg L’Estrange to obtain a social licence for the Tamar Valley pulp mill.

The committee also heard from Ron O’Connor, co-owner of logging company Aprin, who said he had $10 million of private finance secured and a $6 million loan from the Department of Economic Development to buy the mill.

But in a submission to the inquiry released after the last set of hearings Mr L’Estrange said Mr O’Connor had not complied with the Agreement of Sale, and arrangements to obtain a loan were ‘‘preliminary and incomplete’’.

Mr L’Estrange said Gunns then entered into negotiations with Triabunna Investments, the second highest bidder.

He said Gunns insisted the facility be available to the industry, and denied there were discussions with Green groups that inferred an arrangement on the pulp mill.

Mr L’Estrange said the future of the forest industry was not in the export of native timber wood chips and could not rely on government subsidies.

Earlier this week Labor accused the state government of sending out ‘‘mixed messages’’ on the site.

Braddon Liberal MHA Joan Rylah ruled out compulsory acquisition of the site in parliament on Tuesday, but Premier Will Hodgman said ‘‘nothing was ruled in or out’’.