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

Photo of Danny Healy-RaeDanny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)

I need to interrupt Mr. Tarrant because the clock is winding down. Can the witnesses eliminate trees falling on wires now? There should be no tree within falling distance of a wire or a road. I would like to hear the county manager's opinion on that. We read ads in the paper of lives being lost because of drink-driving, but lives have been lost by trees falling out on roads. When someone is dead, it is immaterial what happened to them or how they died.

However, people are being killed on our roads. Do the witnesses think that all trees within falling distance of a road or wire should be eliminated?

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