Review of land use 'most important project in programme for government'

Environment Minister Eamon Ryan giving the afternoon keynote address at the DCU Centre for Climate and Society annual conference. Addressing climate change 'will not work if it's a politics of division', said Mr Ryan. Picture: Kyran O’Brien/DCU Communications Department

The current review of land use in Ireland is the "most important project within the programme for government", according to Environment Minister Eamon Ryan.

Speaking at the annual Dublin City University (DCU) Centre for Climate and Society conference, Mr Ryan, as one of two keynote speakers, told 300 attendees that the land use review commitment is "such a sensitive issue, we couldn't even call it a land use plan, for fear that someone might think that we were telling farmers what to do".