Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion
2:00 am
Dr. Andy Bleasdale:
To clarify my earlier point about funding, and not to be misrepresented, I do not think funding is insubstantial and needs to be found. Farmers will have to be incentivised to make any change that is required and that will cost money but, to my mind, that is the easier challenge to overcome. The bigger challenge to overcome is integration, the pulling together of relevant players, looking at existing schemes, and the working out of how those schemes need to be tailored, tweaked and adapted and become flexible to the needs of Lady's Island Lake in this case. Money will be needed but that, to my mind, is the easier of the problems that exist. The co-ordination, integration and collaboration forms the more challenging piece.
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