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She has told this programme before that adapting to the kind of flooding that Michael Miley's farm suffered is going to require installing flood solutions on about 5% of the land in every river catchment.
Everybody working at cross-purposes to each other.
Una Duggan, Head of Policy at Birdwatch Ireland.
It's very Lord of the Rings, really, isn't it?
Good morning to you, Professor Burke.
We need a plan to unite all of the other plans.
Do we need a national land use plan that integrates flood adaptation right into its core?
Or can we, should we just leave this to the county councils?
So what you're saying, Mary, is that you don't need 5% of the land in every river catchment on a permanent basis, only to use it temporarily at moments of intense rainfall?
And Mary, if we don't do this, if we don't integrate this into a national land use plan, what happens?
Professor Mary Burke, thank you very much.
Ronan Power is Chief Executive of Solar Ireland, the representative body for the solar industry.
At points in the course of the last week, over a third of Ireland's electricity was generated by solar panels.
Obviously, though, you have a lot more that you want to do.
Do we need a national land use plan for you to achieve that?