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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: No. I am going to move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: There are four members looking to come in. For their own benefit, Senator Higgins is next, then Senator Dooley, then Senator Boylan and then Deputy Bríd Smith. Senator Higgins is joining us from her office.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: There are four or five questions. I ask our guests to be as brief as they can be because I want to give time for other members to come in and we only have 45 minutes left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Ms O'Neill for that. The second question was for Dr. McGoff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Dr. McGoff. As regards the Arterial Drainage Act 1945, the committee recommended that the Act be reviewed in its report published before Christmas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: Was it on the voluntarism point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: I put that question to the farming organisations and ask them to be as succinct as they can be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Senator Higgins for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: We can agree that the science is in dispute but there is a question, today at least, about the Irish context and the data.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: The land use review, as Ms O'Neill said, was peer-reviewed. It is important to state that. Mr. Roddy is on his own when he says there is a dispute with respect to the science in the Irish context.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Roddy. I will go to Mr. Kelly. Again, I ask him to be brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Kelly and Senator Higgins. Deputy Bríd Smith will join us from her office. Senator Dooley is happy for her to go before him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: Will the farming organisations go first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: I will interrupt. We heard clear evidence that farming can continue, for the most part, on many of the rewetted lands. That is the scientific evidence we received. We should be-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: There is a narrative that rewetting land equates to flooding land but that has been categorically denied and dismissed by any scientific evidence we have heard. Farming can continue on many of these lands. The farming season will perhaps be shorter but we should be absolutely clear that while rewetting of lands requires raising the water table it is not the case that this amounts to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: Absolutely, but we need to be very clear that production can continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: Reduced, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: I will push the Senator on.