Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 3:

In page 16, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(i) existing levels of afforestation adjacent to domestic dwellings,”.

I will not push this amendment to a full vote but the Minister might accept it. Essentially, we are proposing that one of the criteria to be taken into account before the Minister approves a scheme would be the existing levels of afforestation adjacent to domestic dwellings. The amendment does not seek to constrain the Government at all in designing this scheme; it simply asks that when people seek to avail of it, due consideration be given to existing afforestation in the same manner as public safety, for example, which is already included in the Bill.

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