The debate is on biodiversity and nature restoration but there is nothing here about the protection of human life. I am from a farming background and live in rural Ireland. I talk about people trying to get safely to school or the bus network or trucks trying to get to the shops with goods from the farmers, people trying to get to work and people trying to walk the roads. All the roads in Ireland are closing in. There is talk about the protection of wildlife, which pulls the mirrors off trucks, buses and cars and puts people in danger. A solution has not been put forward to getting wildlife off the sides of the roads and safe passage for humans on the roads. It is not only safe passage for people on the roads but it is also saving nature. However, this is ignored and it is decided we must let all the roads in Ireland close in and put people's lives at risk. I love wildlife and I want to protect wildlife but I also love humans and want to protect human life. Unfortunately, there is no joined-up thinking when it comes to governance. You can only cut the hedges at certain times of the year but if the hedges were cut properly once - 1 m up and straight up - you would protect everyone. You would protect wildlife and you would protect human life but it is not looked at in that way. How many people when driving come around the bend and are met by a vehicle in the middle of the road because it cannot keep to the side of the road as everything growing out from there? This is all due to policies by government rather than joined-up thinking which would allow the hedges to be cut back properly once and then be maintained from then on to protect wildlife and human life. However, it looks like human life comes last when it comes to this Government. We want to protect nature and we want biodiversity but we also want to protect human life. That might be something for the Government to think about.

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