255. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to indicate, in the context of land management and maintenance, the extent to which land drainage continues to be central, notwithstanding encouragement towards rewilding and rewetting, given the tendency that land subject to water saturation may compact to the extent that necessary and adequate drainage cannot take place and consequently soils cannot be aerated; the likely steps to improve this position in order to protect agriculturally viable lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47243/23]

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255. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to indicate, in the context of land management and maintenance, the extent to which land drainage continues to be central, notwithstanding encouragement towards rewilding and rewetting, given the tendency that land subject to water saturation may compact to the extent that necessary and adequate drainage cannot take place and consequently soils cannot be aerated; the likely steps to improve this position in order to protect agriculturally viable lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47243/23]

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