Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The biodiversity of this country is radically depleting before our eyes. This Bill proceeds with that. I ask the Minister to delete section 7 because it is the most odious element of the Bill. I urge her to accept logical, reasonable responses such as amendment No. 19, which asks the Minister to make regulations to establish a new task force to identify efficient agriculture and environmentally sympathetic ways of doing business. Both the environment and agriculture can work in sympathy if they are allowed to do so but not under these provisions.

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