Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have a couple of supplementary questions.

I was not sure how effective were incentives. Dr. Schulte stated that if it is tailored correctly it can be effective, but we do not know whether it has been tailored correctly until it is too late. I also question the cost-effectiveness of measures under the Habitats Directive.

I would make one last comment about the paper, which states, under Towards Functional Land Management, that, "reductions in greenhouse gas emissions do not need to be locationally bound – the spatial origin of reductions is irrelevant in the context of their global warming potential". It refers to it on a global level as well. Is that a dangerous concept to be giving to the EU in the context that one would export global warming reductions to the Third World and continue as before? Perhaps the question is not relevant to today but it is one that came to mind when I was looking at it.