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

Moving to 8,000 ha still leaves us 2,000 ha short of what COFORD, the forestry research authority, has stated is the absolute minimum necessary for us to have real afforestation and for our forestry estate to be an effective carbon sink.

The Brexit problem simply highlights the need for diversification away from single species and so on. That we are vulnerable in that area too-----

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