Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent)
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Quickly, if I could go to Ms O'Neill, who mentioned forestry and land use, and the issue of the permanent storage of carbon, how important or how useful are peatlands in terms of a guaranteed early action on carbon storage and the potential for permanent storage in relation to that? I ask Dr. McGoff of SWAN what we can do in terms of river basin management and the prohibition of wetland drainage. Dr. McGoff mentioned both the Arterial Drainage Act and the river basin management scheme. It seems that we certainly should be stopping digging or stopping draining as a priority.