Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA

Mr. Niall Curley:

With regard to the 70 years, it is to get it to a certain condition. It could be ten years before or there might not be the necessity to put up such a specific year base but, in certain areas, it is to get a habitat to a specific year base in terms of pre-industrial. To take the example of peatlands, what has been done in Ireland is the extraction of peat in an industrial fashion by Bord na Móna. The aim will be to restore that to its condition prior to it having been industrially damaged.