Eoghan Dalton

And the other thing I take issue with about this video is that it repeatedly states that these Sitka plantations are good for the climate when they most emphatically are not.

And Michael Healy-Ray, who wrote the foreword, there was recently controversy surrounding him when he was minister because he was proposing that Sitka be planted on peat

And Peter Thorne, professor of climate change at Maynooth University, called that suggestion, quote, about the dumbest thing we could do regarding climate action.

You know, it really is, it's somewhere, I would put it somewhere in the middle between misinformation and disinformation.

Absolutely, we need timber, but we also, it is possible to produce timber without destroying and driving out nature at the same time, which is what these

places do.

And we need to be very clear about that.