Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 December 2025
558. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when a review of the National Landscape Strategy for Ireland 2015-2025 is expected; if his Department are working on a successor strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [71615/25]
View answerImplementation of the aims of the National Landscape Strategy is implicit in many of the actions currently being taken across the built and natural heritage sphere. The range of current work being undertaken across Government in the context of the Land Use Review will supplant and overtake the existing strategy in this area.
As indicated previously, my Department has in the meantime made very substantial progress on issues of habitat and wildlife protection, which are tied closely to landscape. In particular, I would emphasise the 4th National Biodiversity Action Plan, which sets the national biodiversity agenda for the period 2023-2030 and aims to deliver the transformative changes required to the ways in which we value and protect nature. This, along the Nature Restoration Law ratified recently by the European Parliament, will continue to support the delivery of national nature, water, landscape and climate objectives, while at the same time realising co-benefits for value creation in rural economies and communities.
