Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Is the Department working with the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the National Parks and Wildlife Service on the one issue? Dr. Smyth made a few references to scrub land. One of the problems is that there have been limitations attached to burning scrub land. Is that aspect part of what will be necessary? In our report last year we referenced specifically inaction with regard to burning. It is an environmental measure and not one that is damaging. Deputy Kyne asked whether the use of a bulldozer or the traditional way is the best way, and I argue that the traditional way, which kept the commonages in good condition, is the way to manage them.