Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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One of the recommendations of this committee was the creation of a national land-use plan. While the Government did not include that in its all-of-Government climate action plan, it advocated a mapping exercise. Whether that is a land-use plan is a question of semantics. What Dr. Renou-Wilson has said today makes the case again for a land-use plan to recognise, as she says, that certain areas might be suitable for particular things. For example, a certain area might be suitable for alder or reeds while other areas should be left untouched or restored as raised bogs. Does Dr. Renou-Wilson believe a national land-use plan would be useful in that context? In her discussions with the peatlands council and so on, has such an approach been considered?