Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I agree with Deputy Kenny. We have to fund farming, forestry and nature protection to deliver on the objectives. This is where the farming community is starting to come around, that it is not the environment versus farming and that we have to work together. The environmental community is certainly of that view. I have a few examples. A figure €1.3 billion that has been set aside for new forestry programmes, which are often very innovative and will keep people farming in agriforestry, such as doing a riparian strip and so on.