I thank Deputy McGreehan for mentioning Cú Chulainn, obviously Louth's finest hurler. Hopefully we will see his type again in the near future. It is much needed. I agree with much of what previous speakers have said. We are in an absolute nightmare with regard to biodiversity and the crossover point with climate change. A huge amount of work is being done by communities. Many have mentioned Tidy Towns. The danger with naming one group is that you offend those you do not mention. I will mention Dundalk, Blackrock and Dromiskin and the huge body of work done in those areas. I have to mention Muirhevnamor Community Gardens where there are allotments and community gardens in the middle of a major estate in Dundalk. The connection with community and nature is fundamentally a brilliant thing. A huge amount of work is done and sometimes people underestimate the clean-up. From that comes a connection with what needs to be done in relation to management of biodiversity, combined with ensuring we live in clean communities. I welcome the work done in Bay Estate where I live. Occasionally, I have shown up. In the past number of weeks, I have used the excuse of canvassing and other things not to be at it. I will not bother mentioning any candidates or anything. I am very good like that. I commend the work they do. The Cooley Peninsula Marine Litter Project is a fabulous project. It is quite like Ronseal. I do not think I need to get into what it does. I have been lucky enough to be alongside many of my Sinn Féin councillor colleagues on clean-ups. Even our Toirleach showed up at the last one and probably did a bit more work than I did, but that can happen from time to time. I also welcome the work done by the Bee Kind Project, which engaged Louth Council and Newry, Mourne and Down District Council from the point of view of planting native fruit trees, and engaged with community groups on that. As I am nearly out of time I was going to get into the ins and outs of the impact on our habitats of those species that are facing extinction and the fact that we need to work alongside farmers. We need to make sure funding is derived from outside of the CAP to make the moves that need to be made. A huge amount also needs to be done from the point of view of energy, whether we are talking about biogas or wind energy. We also need to deal with the infrastructural disaster in the area of wastewater, which has a huge impact in Louth.

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