Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I can confirm I am in Leinster House. Although, as I said earlier, I will have to leave to attend the convention centre at some point during the course of the meeting, I will tune in remotely.

I thank both of the witnesses for their comprehensive opening statements. I really appreciate it. As a complete novice to the agricultural sector with the exception of perhaps a little knowledge of horticulture, I find it useful to have expert witnesses before us to tease out this area, which, of course, is crucially important in terms of our climate action targets.

I will start with a couple of questions for Professor Matthews, if that is okay. I have a couple of queries on his interpretation of some of the figures produced by the EPA. The EPA is producing a report in two weeks' time and its representatives will come before us the day after, which is very welcome in terms of teasing out. The EPA expects emissions to further increase by 2.5% under a within-existing-measures scenario by 2030. I wanted to query what exactly "within existing measures" means? Are we talking about the stated strategies and policies of the likes of Teagasc and others or are we talking about not doing anything in terms of climate action steps?