Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We are at a point of real change in the forestry industry. There was a massive increase in afforestation to meet our climate change targets. We need to learn from what has happened in the past 50 years and move to what I believe is a form of forestry with a higher value, with a higher value product, with far more jobs and where we protect biodiversity and the long-term quality of soil. It should be in the form of continuous cover forestry as in Germany, Switzerland and many other countries. Does the Minister of State have such a plan? Will he implement a plan to move from clear felling to continuous cover forestry? If so, how will it be done?

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