Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am afraid I cannot give the Deputy certainty today but it is something that we are considering. Many people who invested in forestry were encouraged to do so by Government and given Government grants. For many of them, this would potentially have been their pension. Now, through no fault of their own, they see their crop has been destroyed. For similar crops in similar circumstances, we would provide a compensation package. We are examining it seriously and sympathetically. We just need to see what is being done in other European countries, for example. We are genuinely going to make a decision on it sooner rather than later.

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