Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 14 February 2023
886. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is currently considering funding supports for landowners to cut down dangerous roadside trees and to replant an equivalent amount elsewhere on their land holding. [6546/23]
View answerThe care and management of trees adjacent to roads is the responsibility of the landowner on whose land the roadside trees are growing. It is advisable that landowners make themselves aware of the full legal extent of their land ownership and of any obligations arising from this.
My Department does not offer funding for the removal of roadside trees, but has recently published guidance on the subject of roadside trees (“A Guide for Landowners to Managing Roadside Trees”) and this can be accessed at www.gov.ie/forestry.
