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
Réada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein)
I know biodiversity has to be seen as an all-island project as well. There is a problem up in Lough Neagh too. We should be preparing for a united Ireland as well. If we could find out what happened here and make sure it does not happen again, we can share that in the North. One thing is certain: the British Government does not care what happens with biodiversity in the Six Counties, and we should be making sure our Departments are preparing for Irish unity and ensuring that works.
On the CLEAR project, the bad impact that fertiliser has on tourism and the damage that it causes to tourism have been mentioned.
Will the witnesses expand on this? I know it is hard to put a figure on it but, clearly, the Government sees fertiliser as very lucrative because we import so much of it. Could we look at the damage that it causes to tourism, including to Lady's Island Lake?
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