Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am genuinely losing faith in all of this. I would like to be reassured by the Minister. The reason I am losing faith is that when I travel around the country, which I do regularly, and look at the hedgerows all along our motorways and our roads, they are hacked to death. Leaving out the internal and external hedges of farms and those internal to every county, when I travel on the motorway, which I did yesterday and the day before and the day before that, the hedges are hacked to death. One would think Vikings had come in with huge hooks and hacked every bush regardless of its size and shape and its natural environment.