Last week, Roscommon-Galway TD Michael Fitzmaurice called for a tree-free corridor of 35m from transmission lines in forests and 30m on roads.

But with Ireland already lagging far behind the European average for forest cover, do we really want to start cutting down more trees.

Eoghan Daltun is a Farmer, Rewilder and Author of award-winning bestseller 'An Irish Atlantic Rainforest'. He joins Seán to discuss.