Taoiseach interested in discussing ‘reasonable price’ for 1,400-acre site to extend national parks
“Our national parks are a wonderful public asset, and I’d like to see more of them, and I’d like to see them made bigger, but this is taxpayers’ money. And if there’s a reasonable price that we can agree well then I think we’d like to take it into public ownership but the price has to be reasonable.”
Speaking on Newstalk Breakfast on Friday, Tony Lowes, director of Friends of the Irish Environment, said a comparison would be made that €10 million could be better spent on the homeless or the health system.I think the problem is that people don’t see the value of a national park, the value of taking over an area like this. We put in five national parks in the last 20 years of the last century, and we haven’t put in one this century.
If the Conor Pass was allowed to regenerate, “the skies would fill and the rivers there are going to be again full of fish, as they once were before,” Mr Lowes said, adding: “This is what we’re after. And we can’t do that unless we manage the land properly.”
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