Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The terminology we use is blue carbon habitats, so it is marine environments that are carbon-rich or have the ability to suck in the carbon. Regarding equating them to something on land, and much of the time when we are doing the marine planning stuff, we must think about how we do it on land to get our bearings on it. We equate it to something like our raised bogs - the kind of habitats with a lot of locked-in carbon we want to protect. That is interesting.

Regarding that potential national carbon capture or locked-in carbon, we are carrying out a land use strategy for our climate action plan to allocate the amount of CO2 sequestration there. Are we doing something similar for our marine area as part of that? Could we look at the potential of our seagrass habitats to incorporate that into it?