Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

Members will sadly be aware of the aggressive plant disease known as sudden oak death, which has the potential to wipe out or totally devastate Ireland's oldest remaining oakwoods in the heart of Killarney National Park. I refer here to the oakwoods in the area of Derrycunihy. Traces of this disease have been found at Torc and on Ross Island. Hopefully, that is as far as it will spread. The disease has only affected some rhododendron bushes, which park staffs are busy removing, to date. Signs have been placed at the entrance——