Debate contribution: Tree Protection Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Mr Paul Boggs on .
- MLA
- Mr Paul Boggs
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 21 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Tree Protection Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5742558
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As you are on that point, this will save me covering it. Do you agree that, although the Bill looks at protecting trees that are already there, and rightly so — I will come to that in my remarks — businesses are taking the opportunity to plant more trees, while the Forest Service, the Woodland Trust and others have reported on DAERA's lack of planting and how little we have planted so far, despite the strategy that it brought forward in 2020? We need to take better action to plant more trees rather than spend so much time on protecting what we have.
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