Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 15:

In page 15, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(i) shall, on an annual basis, lay a report before Dáil Éireann on the level of afforestation per Local Electoral Area, the level of which is broadleaf, and as to how this aligns with government policy and objectives,”.

The purpose of this is to make data on forestry more readily available to legislators and the public. In the Dáil, the Minister indicated that this data is already available, or rather that it can be extrapolated from the data that is available. My understanding is that is in complex data sets, so the crux of the matter is whether it is freely available. Therefore, this amendment in seeking to ensure the data is published in a more digestible format.