Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am dubious enough about it because I know they impede the growth of grass, even far away out from the ditch. For whatever reason, cattle do not like the type of grass that grows under the trees. They have a dislike for it.

The other very important thing, and we all encountered it during the storm, is roadside trees. This is happening more. People are being killed and everything. What role does the Minister of State have to play in ensuring this is stopped? In all fairness, a young man was killed in County Donegal that time, and people are being killed everywhere with trees falling down on them. I know it and the Minister of State knows it. Deputy Aird made a serious comment. It is a big, onerous problem for a landowner to cut a tree on the roadside with the traffic and the speed and everything. Is the State going to get involved here because it is a serious matter? Does the Minister of State know what is giving me great concern now? If you come up from Mallow to Kildorrery, a fine job was done on the road there. We are all agitating for it. What have they done now only planted oak and ash trees on the side of the road. I mean, it is one thing to be cutting them, but does it make sense to be planting them for the future?