Mr. Miche?l McDonnell:

I echo the comments of Senator Dooley. Reclaiming peatland is also something I grew up with. The 20% of the reclaimed farm peatland enables us to farm the other parts of the farm in an environmentally proactive way. One is mutually beneficial to the other. That is an important point. If that land were rewetted, we are possibly taking his or her farming enterprise away. If he or she is not farming that land, it is going wild. Are we into an area of monoculture and maybe invasive species? In addition, if this land were rewetted we are taking him or her out of society, and from his or her contributions to local schools, shops, GAA and all of that. There is a huge societal impact. This is the conclusion of the land use review. The success of this reconfiguration will need to be measured in terms of contribution on climate mitigation, adaptation and just transition across full society and the whole of society wide. Farmers are part of that society too.