Éanna Ní Lamhna

It was invented in the 80s.

It's a combination of biology and diversity.

Biology are living things and diversity is lots of different living things.

And people know about it very well.

It means lots of different living things in different places.

What really annoys me is people saying when they start an interview, oh, biodiversity.

Nobody knows what that means.

Tell us what biodiversity is.

I mean, we're 40 years telling them what it is.

Why was that?

I wouldn't be confessing to not knowing what it is at this stage.

People do know what biodiversity is.

We've had the Citizens' Assembly on it.

We've had a biodiversity crisis.

We're doing things about it.

And people realise if they look at a hedgerow and all they see is a whole lot of hawthorn trees and nothing else, there's not much biodiversity there.

Whereas if they look at a hedgerow and they can see ash trees, they can see hazel, they can see holly, they can see...

wild rose they can see a whole lot of different plants in the hedge they can see that's a much more healthy hedge there's going to be more animals in that there's going to be a pathway for bats there's going to be birds in it and they know that that's what biodiversity means so we're not going to give any more oxygen to people saying we don't know what this big word means people know very well what it means said Terry I really think they do

Yes, indeed.

It's a new initiative by the Minister, Chris O'Sullivan, and it's set up to actually cope with invasive species.