Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. RuaidhrĂ­ O'Boyle:

To clarify my answer, the question was on what we thought about the amount of the emissions reduction in ammonia. An Taisce is not tasked or resourced to do that sort of work. I presume it would have come up with Teagasc a couple of weeks ago when it was before the committee and it would have been able to give a clarification on how much the ammonia emissions will reduce.

As far as I am aware, Teagasc projects that agricultural emissions will rise in the coming years, so we cannot say whether the type of slurry spreading, which, as I said, is a small part of the overall emissions profile, will have a material impact on that rising emissions trajectory. But does not sound as though it will, based on that.

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