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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: There was a rule that if someone was planting ground, they would have to plant 80% of green ground versus 20% of waste ground, cutaway bog or other type of ground. Has that rule changed? When we are talking about peaty soil, is that the ground that is being brought back?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I agree with the Minister of State. He said that some crowd said we had a romantic notion about planting trees on blanket bog. I went through bogs with tractors and machines, and I can think of more romantic places to be. In one minute, you could be swallowed, and you would be trying to get up from underneath and to get out of the machine before it was covered up. There is a big...