{"id":1337589,"date":"2024-06-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/?p=1337589"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:12:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T17:12:12","slug":"td-dead-ash-trees-near-roads-pose-a-serious-risk-to-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/farming-news\/td-dead-ash-trees-near-roads-pose-a-serious-risk-to-people\/","title":{"rendered":"TD: Dead ash trees near roads pose ‘a serious risk to people’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The countryside is “full of dead ash trees, many of which are by roadsides” which in turn could pose a “serious risk”, a TD has told the D\u00e1il.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Fine Gael TD for Cork east, David Stanton, also highlighted that dead trees “are extraordinarily dangerous”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n“If a tree falls down on a road at night, someone could drive into it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
” I have seen trees that have already fallen, the damage they can cause and the dangers they pose. I notice more and more of them around the country,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deputy Stanton called on the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Martin Heydon, to “instruct local authorities to carry out surveys and if trees are found that are obviously dead and could easily fall in a gale, that they notify the landowner that they have to be removed”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n