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)

Photo of Martin BrowneMartin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----An Taisce questions how Teagasc's climate mitigation projections could be credible in light of the evident failure, since 2012, of measures to offset the output of growth. The witnesses also stated that they have repeatedly attempted to engage with the State agency on a scientific basis without substantive reply. What is the working relationship between the two organisations? There is a difference between the two organisations in respect of measures to offset the policies of continued dairy expansion. It is down to their looking at climate action from different viewpoints. Will the witnesses expand on the working relationship between the two organisations, given what both bring to the table to chart a way forward for small farmers and rural communities?

The witnesses mentioned that the 15-year-old ESB and Bord na Móna peat power plants in Offaly and Longford should represent a warning to the Irish agricultural sector on the consequences of misdirected investment and ill-advised subsidy use. Will they give us examples of what they class as misdirected investment and ill-advised subsidies?

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