Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

There is a sectoral target for agriculture now whereas up to this there was a national target to reduce emissions by 30%. In the context of determining what that target should be, the Government took into account the fact that the forestry and land use sector had already contributed a significant amount of mitigation to the overall national target. We then had a toolbox established by Teagasc, namely a marginal abatement cost curve, that lists actions that might be taken to abate and sequester carbon. As such, there are three pillars to the effort. One is measures to reduce carbon emissions from agriculture. That will involve things like reducing the use of nitrogen-based fertilisers and improved breeding of animals. The second pillar is sequestration. That will involve trying to meet our forestry targets, which is a challenge, planting more trees-----