Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion
Ms Kate Carmody:
I would like to answer that, as would Mr. Darcy as he builds with it. Hemp sequesters four times more carbon than trees per acre. If you take the fibre crop and make hempcrete or put it into insulation materials, you are locking up that carbon. I am actually doing that on my farm. I am restoring an old building and hopefully it will last for 100 years so that we get the benefit of the carbon sequestration.
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