Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

The programme for Government states that it will "require carbon offsetting of all official air travel in support of urban forests". This is probably the Taoiseach's last or second last day to take Questions. I wondered what an urban forest was but then I read in the newspapers this morning of a proposal for the Carlton cinema site with gardens and parks at roof level. Is this one of the Taoiseach's last legacies that, as part of the programme for Government, we will have an urban forest atop a 20 or 30-storey building in O'Connell Street? An urban forest is referred to in the programme for Government as a way of carbon offsetting and I wonder what it is.

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