Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Thank you, Ms O'Neill, for your opening statement. I invite Members to indicate to ask questions. I ask them to be brief in their questions because we have quite a few guests in the room and joining us online and I think we will need all the time we have to get through all the topics. There was an awful lot in our guests' opening statements, so I ask for the co-operation of Members in order that we are fair to one another and to our guests.

I will ask just a quick question. Ms O'Neill, in your statement you talked about "insufficient evidence on the condition and extent of hedgerows", and I note that Mr. Roddy talked about the science being utterly lacking. These are two different things, but I think there is a risk that they can be conflated. I will give an opportunity to both of you and anyone else who wants to come in on that question of the science being lacking or resolved or what the gaps are there.