Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Can the Minister of State give me an assurance - I believe I can take it from her reply already - that all small-scale planting and all small blocks of scrub are measured in the inventory? That aspect is very important.

Are the Department, and the statutory agencies which work with it, engaged in research across the global community? I know that in my own time in the Department we had a great deal of collaboration and co-operation with other research bodies throughout the world across different areas, including the whole area of forestry. It is very important that we have that collaboration, that we have access to that research for the common good and that we participate in as many international programmes as is possible.

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