Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine

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9:00 am

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

Agriculture is responsible for 30% of emissions. It is 44% of non-emissions trading system, ETS, emissions, which cannot be traded. That is a function of the nature of the Irish economy. It is not some fault on the part of farmers.

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