The Heritage Bill was passed through the final stage in Dáil Éireann on Wednesday night, with 64 TDs voting for the bill and 33 against it.
After a lengthy debate in the Dáil chamber, in which 32 amendments were debated, the bill was passed. Before being enacted, the bill has to go back to the Seanad for one final stage.
The bill includes a number of measures, to be introduced on a pilot two-year basis, to allow for a more managed approach to the vegetation management issues which regularly arise.
The pilot measures are:
Managed hedge cutting in respect of roadside hedges only will be allowed, under strict criteria, during August to help ensure issues such as overgrown hedges impacting on roads can be tackled. This provision applies only to the side of a hedge that faces onto a road. Hedges not running along the road will be unaffected.To allow for controlled burning in certain areas around the country, to be specified by regulation, during March, should it be necessary, for example, due to adverse weather conditions. Read more
Hedge-cutting dates await Dáil approval
Burnt land: 'The farmer isn’t the guilty party'
The Heritage Bill was passed through the final stage in Dáil Éireann on Wednesday night, with 64 TDs voting for the bill and 33 against it.
After a lengthy debate in the Dáil chamber, in which 32 amendments were debated, the bill was passed. Before being enacted, the bill has to go back to the Seanad for one final stage.
The bill includes a number of measures, to be introduced on a pilot two-year basis, to allow for a more managed approach to the vegetation management issues which regularly arise.
The pilot measures are:
Managed hedge cutting in respect of roadside hedges only will be allowed, under strict criteria, during August to help ensure issues such as overgrown hedges impacting on roads can be tackled. This provision applies only to the side of a hedge that faces onto a road. Hedges not running along the road will be unaffected.To allow for controlled burning in certain areas around the country, to be specified by regulation, during March, should it be necessary, for example, due to adverse weather conditions. Read more
Hedge-cutting dates await Dáil approval
Burnt land: 'The farmer isn’t the guilty party'
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