Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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We have noticed that breasting a hedge, which can be done with a machine, by putting a scraw on the end of it, as it was done traditionally in rural Ireland, thickens the whole hedge and takes the daylight areas out of that. Regarding the statistics about Monaghan compared with statistics around the country, was it a section of Monaghan or was every part of Monaghan looked at?