Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector

Professor Frank O'Mara:

I thank the Senator for his question. We are reaching out to all farmers about things they can do around greenhouse gas emissions. We certainly want to make an individual plan for any farmer that is up for it and to help her or him to implement that plan but that does not mean that unless a farmer does that, we will not talk to him or her about trying to reduce emissions. The 50,000 farmers that we want to take into this programme will have an individualised, customised plan. Our plan is to take in 10,000 per year over five years and support them for three years after that to implement the plan. We are on target to take in 10,000 in our first year and the 21 advisers that we have doing that job are well fit to take in 10,000 per year. Our issue will be with the follow-up over the subsequent three years. Ideally we would like another 20 to 30 advisers doing that in addition to our current cohort of advisers. It is not like-----

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