Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Forestry Sector and Climate Action Plan: Discussion

Photo of Tim LombardTim Lombard (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

How is the Minister of State going to change the ethos of beef and dairy farmers, in particular, to get them into the system and idea of having a percentage of the holding used in this way and what does the Minister of State deem to be a percentage of a holding that a beef or dairy farmer should be looking at? The ethos of a dairy and beef farmer and how they look at forestry, mentally more than anything else, is a significant issue. How do we change that?

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