Joe Cooney (Clare, Fine Gael)
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We never want to see the likes of what we saw in the last storm again in our lifetime.

The risk associated with large-scale monoculture crops, such as single-species forestry plantations, is plain to see with the ash dieback. It leaves owners in the State horribly exposed to the introduction of diseases and the costs of cleaning up afterwards. We are all well aware of what is happening with the ash dieback. The only question I am asking is about what lessons we have learned in regard to biosecurity. What measures are now in place to ensure that what happened in the past does not happen again? What have we put in place?