Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We want more and more people engaged in environmentally friendly farming. That is a fabulous scheme in the Burren. We need more of those schemes, and farmers need to be compensated and to have income streams that encourage and incentivise restoration and protection of biodiversity.

In response to Deputy Patricia Ryan, there should be equity in respect of funding of Men's Sheds and Women's Sheds. I suppose Men's Sheds have been there a number of years, there is a higher number of them and so on, but the number of Women's Sheds now is growing, and that is a good thing. Certainly, we will be there to fund and to support them.

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