Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Teagasc Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On the mitigation plan, we fought a long battle to get this legislation and we are clearly not meeting our targets under climate change legislation generally. Has a team been set up in Teagasc on climate change to monitor the targets set out in the mitigation plan? I looked at Teagasc's annual statement and Brexit got two pages. Brexit is very important but it has opportunities associated with it as well as risks. We are in serious trouble with climate change, however, and there is only half of a page on it in Teagasc's report. Will Professor Boyle outline for me what actions Teagasc is taking under the mitigation plan?

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