• Green Party Senator (Agricultural Panel)
• Entered the Seanad on 1 November 2019 — Byelection
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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Oct 2023)

“I thank Deputy Smith for the question. It is an important aspect and something many people want to understand. The Deputy will probably be aware that the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is responsible for the reporting of emissions and removals associated with land use activities on an annual basis to the EU and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC....”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Oct 2023)

“I completely agree with what the Deputy is saying. Alongside the work that is being done on hedgerows, Teagasc is also doing work on soil carbon and the effects of the losses and sequestration there. Mapping is important but I certainly believe with regard to public spaces, that is perhaps where the mapping aspect will come in. We identify those areas where there are trees in public...”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Oct 2023)

“I do not have to hand what collaborations are ongoing but I am sure that we wholly engage with international research, particularly within forestry. The Deputy will be aware that we have a challenge now that our forestry estate will become no longer a sink of carbon and that is one of the challenges we face going forward, which is in order to ramp up the planting of trees now in the next...”

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• Has spoken in 13 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among Senators.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 97 times in debates — well below average among Senators.
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