Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In the North, Mr. Poots MLA has brought in the LiDAR system, which I have seen used in bogs. It is a pretty effective method. In the North, they are using the system for soils and for all the mounted carbon that is stored in hedges and in the trees around the country. Why have we not done that as a country, and tied up with what they are doing in Northern Ireland? If we did so, we would have an accurate account of what we have sequestered. We could do two trials. One could be done now, and another could be done in a few years' time. That way, we would know had been sequestered in between. I saw the method being used when I visited the Devenish farm. Why have we not done something like that?