Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We are in a biodiversity crisis. It has been declared. There is also a cost involved. I preface this by complimenting the staff for managing both of those facilities. They are wonderful. We are blessed with them. I do not want to go into a whole debate on this but I ask the witnesses to go back and look at this again because one part of the Government does not seem to be telling the other part what it is doing. The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications is saying this has to be sorted out. Most people have accepted that we have to address the biodiversity crisis. These are carbon sinks. They are huge habitats and they manage themselves. We do not need to be going in with machinery and ploughing up the whole place.