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

Yes, but we also have an imperative to ensure we have good, environmentally protective, best practices in forestry. Deputy McNamara has a good point about a farmer who decides to afforest marginal land but discovers 40 years later that he cannot harvest it and will not get any financial recognition for contributing to the overall environmental welfare. Farmers are right and justified in seeking the assurance that if that were to happen - as Deputy McNamara said it could for a very good reason - then they will be compensated. It is a reasonable argument.

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