Joe Higgins
Ceist:68 Mr. Higgins (Dublin West) asked the Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources if, in view of the recent COP6 controversy over using the planting of forestry as a partial alternative to controlling the production of greenhouse gases, he will explain his statements that each hectare of Irish conifers sequesters 100 tonnes of carbon per year when the National Council for Forest Research and Development published works giving a figure of less than four tonnes per hectare per year, and recent research casts doubt on that figure. [28069/00]