Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Surely, we are counting it in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, as mentioned earlier. Given the accounting mechanism is there, we have to do it anyway. My understanding is that many of the reduction targets could come from re-wetting. My understanding of the science is that how a restoration of a habitat like that stores carbon is far more certain than the carbon sequestration in forestry. I could be wrong but most of the science I have heard is to that effect. Could the EPA do a review and present us with some details on what is the best scientific assessment of the storage of carbon in either forestry or bogs? It is important we get an answer to that if we cannot get it today. I would love to know the price of re-wetting a cut-away bog or stopping further extraction per tonne of carbon. I bet my bottom euro it is cheaper than any other mechanism. I do not understand why we are excluding it.