Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed)
Dr. Martha O'Hagan-Luff:
I met Brendan Dunford from the Burrenbeo Trust yesterday and he has a lovely line about the head, the heart and the pocket. The heart is knowing why you should do it and wanting to do it. The head is how to do it; the practical steps of what is the right thing to do, and then the financial incentives. As Dr. O'Mahony says, we need to come at this from all angles. Different things will work for different people but we need to know where we want to get to and what the goal is. The nature restoration law is fantastic and gives us at least an initial target for restoring nature and then we can come at it from as many angles as we can to get to where we need to go.