Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Monday, 8 July 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed)

1:45 pm

Mr. James Nix:

I will answer the Deputy's previous question first on the employment in infant milk formula production and so on. We have a dairy herd of just over 1 million cows. The issue is the plan to increase that by 50%. We are not talking about existing employment. We are talking about an objective which sees the migration of land use largely from tillage into dairy. The point I am making is that over time an allowance should be built into every plan to migrate. We are not talking about the alteration of what is already in place. In terms of what we are up against, the agriculture sector has an industry-backed document which contains large-scale expansion plans. That is the key issue. It is the expansion that is primarily at issue.

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