Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Our new forestry programme has made changes regarding where trees can be planted. Anything with a peat depth of more than 30 cm is excluded from our current forestry programme. Many areas which would have traditionally been forested many decades ago are no longer eligible because our understanding from the research and evidence about the contribution to emissions reductions has significantly changed. A significant peat area is now excluded, with a depth of 30 cm set as the threshold.