Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Teagasc representatives for coming in at short notice, as well as Mr. Bergin and his colleagues from the IFA. It goes without saying that food produced here is of high quality. Relatively speaking, it is produced in a more carbon-friendly manner than food is in other countries. The crux of the issue is Harvest 2020. I understood Dr. Schulte to say that the best case scenario to achieve those targets would be to flat-line greenhouse emissions from agricultural production.

I would like to see a way of resolving this instead of having a head-on collision with the production targets in Harvest 2020. It is either that production is reduced along with the targets for Harvest 2020 or they are offset with other sectors such as transport or energy.

The fodder crisis is set to cost €900 million.