Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Section 48(2) reads “The strategy shall include objectives for the conservation, protection, management and improvement of”, and section 48(2)(b) goes on to state "biodiversity in accordance with the EU Biodiversity Strategy and the National Biodiversity Plan including in particular the protection of trees, groups of trees or other features of ecological significance". We believe that would include hedgerows but we believe that putting it in is too restrictive. We believe it is still captured under the word “features”.