Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)

What is happening seems to fly in the face of logic. On the one hand, people with new forestry are told that peatlands are not appropriate because their usage will release more carbon than it will capture. At the same time, there are peatlands, particularly in my part of the world - many thousands of acres of mountain bog there were planted, which in some cases resulted in serious environmental consequences such as massive landslides - that are going to be replanted again. Many private forestry owners, a large number of whom will have lost their forests as a consequence of recent storms, have their forests on peatlands and will have to replant. The current situation must be reconsidered because it does not make sense to the normal person. Perhaps the witnesses can come up with science that proves otherwise but-----