Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed)

12:30 pm

Mr. Trevor Donnellan:

That is a question for policymakers and one which I do not want to get into, to be honest. Returning to the answer I gave to the previous question, awareness of what farmers need to do in the first instance is critically important. Measures that do not cost farmers money, in some sense, are the ones that farmers should look to adopt in any event.

Some of the measures we have identified potentially save farmers money by increasing their profitability. Farmers should be looking at these measures, apart from the fact that they help to mitigate emissions.

Some of the measures we have looked at are quite expensive. I had not mentioned that earlier but some also have the dual benefit of addressing ammonia emissions, which is another important environmental target that agriculture faces as well. That is almost as an aside but it is important in the context of the emissions mitigation actions we have identified.

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