Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I believe the farming organisations, Deputies in rural areas and the Department have the biggest sequestration area in the country. Rural Ireland is what sequesters a lot of carbon and it is taking the biggest hit for everything that goes wrong.

It is not the planes, the lorries or the transport. It is rural Ireland. It is their cows. We need to come out fighting and not be taking this every day it is on television. I believe, from the figures I have read, that there are 140 trees for each animal in Ireland. Am I correct? How many trees does one need to cover a cow? My understanding is each grown tree takes in 56 lb of CO2.