Dr. Florence Renou-Wilson:

The forestry is just a once-off carbon sink. Peat is an annual constant carbon sink, which is what is important about it. Unlike forestry, it has a huge amount of carbon already there, which once drained is released into the atmosphere. That is why the rewetting is important.

The second question was on blanket bogs. I appreciate the point about private properties. My recommendation is to start first with publicly-owned blanket bogs. Believe me, there are publicly owned blanket bogs. Coillte owns many blanket bogs. We have to start with those, I agree, and show how it is done and then we will move on to help the farmers who want to rewet their land in a way that is feasible to support them to farm carbon. This is the way that it is done in Wales and in Scotland, where farmers are now being paid to rewet a vast area of blanket bog. Farmers are very happy to do that.