Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 36 deals with the different activities that can combine to have an impact on, and pose dangers to, forests. This relates to my point about the areas of activity of organisations such as Coillte or the various things that can happen on lands adjoining forest, particularly following the possible merger of Coillte and Bord na Móna. The amendment tries to refer specifically to the cumulative effect of diversifying into areas such as wind energy and biomass and other activities, or products, on, or close to, forest lands.

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