Mr. Seamus Dunne:

I thank Mr. Callanan and the Senator. It is something we are very conscious of. We are moving away from planting on peat. That is well documented. However, we have a lot of legacy forests that are on peat. We have come through quite an exercise over the past two years under Project Woodland, where we developed a vision. We had a deliberative dialogue which was like a citizens' assembly. It led to 87 different actions. Some of those are programme related that we can fund through the €1.3 billion programme and some are non-programme actions. For example, in relation to legacy sites on peat, some will be replanted and then there will be opportunities to restructure others. Some will not be replanted at all, and some will have wider setbacks or a return to nature. Action 43 is to implement a redesign of habitat restoration measures for forests on peatlands based on the best available science. That is an action that is part of our implementation plan.