Mr. Dale Crammond:

I will very briefly follow on from what Mr. Callanan said. The interim report of the food vision dairy group, which the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, set up earlier this year, has been submitted. There are two recommendations of interest within that which are operating in this space. One of them was a recommendation that we establish at farm level what the emissions of each farm are. We do not have that information at this point. That is a first step. We need to know what each farm's emissions are before we can put policies in place to reduce them. There was also a recommendation to explore a cap and trade model.

Again, it is linked to that model. If a farmer was to destock, he would potentially be financially rewarded to do so. It is very early days in the development of these, but it is something we are looking at. Ultimately, the Government is going to make a decision that will lead to the establishment of a methane reduction target for the agriculture sector. We will have to deliver it at that point.