Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The age-old narrative of farmers at war with environmentalists has to stop. Going back to what I said earlier about the craftspeople working on retrofitting being the frontline heroes, farmers will be the same because they will have to help us adapt to climate change as well as store some of the carbon in our soil. That is absolutely doable. We must pay them for it. I will make a final point on this that I think the Deputy, given her political perspective, will agree on. The large companies, namely, the large multinational food companies and retailers, are going to have to account for their scope 3 emissions in an evolving climate change accounting world. They will have to be responsible for their suppliers' emissions. That gives us an opportunity for them to pay the primary producers, like small Irish family farms, better for the really high quality products they produce. This is an instance where corporate interests are going to have to acknowledge they have a climate responsibility and help their farmers and their suppliers make this switch. It is something we could and should have broad political agreement on.