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

One can. One can do it in a slow way so that over time, one gets a steady stream of products and really high value. One converts that into really high-value material that one puts into one's building stock so that one will not be stuck with what one will see now, that is, the massive price inflation of building materials, because it will come from our resources. It would be a strong, local economy.

Mr. Berry said that what we would aim for would be a strong local human community, a local natural community or ecosystem, as conservingly and as healthfully as possible. He said that, "A good forest economy would therefore be a local economy, and the forest economy of a state or region would therefore be a decentralized [strong] economy." Mr. Berry went on to talk about how central it is to education and to providing education so that our children start to understand our local ecology, local history and local land and from that we will be strong as a people.

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