Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I have another question relating to something the witnesses would have been involved in. At present, we are hearing about Ireland needing to meet targets such as planting another 500,000 ha of trees. That is written in every document I read. It will cause chaos on our water quality if it is the case that forestry is the third biggest contributor to nitrates. It is one thing pushing against the other because the water needs to be minded. If another 500,000 ha of trees are put in, with the best will in the world there will be run-off from them. Is this not an awful contradiction?