Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Review of Storm Éowyn and Storm Preparedness: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Nicholas Tarrant:
Legislation is on the way. We cannot give a time or a date today. I know it has been mentioned at the meeting that it is coming in the next number of months. If we look at this issue in two aspects, one is about future forestry that is planted. The idea of keeping a section, strip or corridor of that forestry as it might potentially impact overhead lines and keeping it free of trees is only a part of the plantation. Its impact from the point of view of downstream flood risk, without being an expert on it, it would be a smaller part of any new forestry, but we are not-----
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