Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

They did not fall. I am happy to leave them there and that is the general view among people who have trees. One can pick out extreme cases.

This is about road safety. We all saw the large trees that fell around the country recently.

There were cars parked in the car park of the Hotel Minella in Clonmel during coursing week, and the night of the bad storm, trees crashed down and badly damaged those cars. Lives would have been lost if there had been people in those cars. We cannot be careful enough regarding the strength of a falling tree, and we cannot underestimate the danger to the public. That is the reason I cannot accept this amendment. It is about road safety.