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

-----for restoring biodiversity to our land. We are having an ecological crisis. We are losing our birds, insect life and mammals. That has to stop. Farmers should be at the forefront and are the perfect people to be there in terms of looking after our natural system. They should be paid for that. We should also pay them for storing carbon. The great advantage with storing carbon, whether we do it in forests or in bogs, is that we should put include stipulation, as the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association has said, that the money relating to carbon stored in a tree in Kerry should stay in that county. It should not come to Dublin or anywhere else. This would be a way of using the money to which I refer to develop rural Ireland.

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