William Aird (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Take trees on the side of the road. It costs anything up to €2,000 or €3,000 to remove a tree once you have closed down the road, put up the safety signs, given notice to the local authority and it comes out and looks at it and signs it off. It is impossible. I know a man with three trees dead. He has 11 acres of land and it just happens to be on the road. It will cost him a fortune. I am asking the Minister of State not to say “No” and to go back. How many people say to me, “If the Healy-Raes were doing it, they would get it done”? Now I am asking a Healy-Rae. I am putting him on the spot and asking him to do something now that he has the power and money to do.

If someone has ash dieback and has the site cleared, can they put trees back there or does a cleansing project have to be done on that site? Is there anything that says the site would not be fit for purpose?