Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion

Photo of Joe FlahertyJoe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Can we speak generally because that is what people want to know. The witnesses have given ambitious targets and said that we want to go to 6 GW but we need to start getting the message out there, even if it is in broad strokes, because it is a huge leap of faith for a farmer. The witnesses paint a rosy picture but it is a huge leap of faith for a farmer to make such a big transition. What are we roughly talking about in returns for a farmer?

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