Aisling Dolan (Fine Gael)
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It is great to have a representative from County Roscommon here. I welcome Mr. Curley. I suppose he would know about where we come from in the west and the challenges we face. We already have many areas under conservation in the west of Ireland. We have many areas of conservation. That is very much be down to its geographic make up and landscape. It is limestone. Quite a large number of areas are already protected by these areas of conservation. We know these very well in our area. I will speak about the nature restoration Bill. The target, Mr. Curley mentioned in his opening statement, is approximately 20% to 24% of European Union land mass for restoration. The Republic of Ireland is one of the smaller countries. How does the EU propose to look at this on a country basis?