Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I agree with Deputy Fitzmaurice with regard to land that has been reclaimed through blood, sweat and tears over generations. We all accept that we have challenges to meet because of climate change and that we have to adapt but that will be a cul-de-sac. Farmers will just not go there and that will not happen. It just will not happen. It has cost farmers an awful lot of money to make land productive and it is a source of pride to them to have managed to do so. We have to meet our climate change challenges but we have to find another route because the re-wetting of productive land that has been worked for generations to arrive at that state will not happen.