Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
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Yes. I will direct this to the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan. The nature restoration laws are being debated today, and it is very tight as to which way they are going to go from the committee. If those laws are not passed, what impact will that have on the Minister of State's plans and the NPWS's plans for peatland restoration? There is a site in Wicklow in the Brockagh area, which is a blue dot catchment, where the NPWS has a restoration project. Directly underneath that on the landscape is a Coillte area where it felled and have replanted with Sitka spruce, and there is draining of blanket bog. I wonder if there is co-ordination between the two entities? The NPWS is trying to do a really good job on the restoration of that bog, and then Coillte completely undermines that work just below it. Could the Minister of State comment on that?