Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)

I thank Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan for drawing up this Private Members' motion. Other members of the Technical Group and I were very happy to put our names to it because we view the proposals it contains as very reasonable. I was determined that conservation would be one of the issues to be discussed in this debate and this has proven to be the case. The motion was tabled some months ago but we ensured it would be taken over these two days when Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan identified this as a special week.

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