Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for being here and for the opening statement. I do not know if they had an opportunity to listen to our discussion with the departmental officials but one of the areas I was trying to explore - and Mr. Spink touched on this quite a bit in his opening statement - was that of establishing a baseline to understand and audit the full carbon footprint of our land use. I asked the officials whether he have the capacity to carry out this work on a farm-by-farm basis, although I did not really get an answer. Can we deliver to each individual farmer a report on his or her farm's carbon storage, sequestration and emissions so that we could then put in place a framework through which to reward him or her for improving the overall balance?