John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It will be announced in the next few weeks what figures will apply to each sector concerning cuts in emissions. If we take a major part of this context, agriculture, and the suggested 22% cut in emissions there, whole industries are based on this sector. I refer to our beef and milk production. Jobs and exports rely on this and so on.

In the past ten years or more, farmers have been encouraged, financially and in other ways, to expand their herds, produce more milk and so on. The Government is now saying that is not the business model for today and that farmers have to cut emissions by 22%, which could lead to a reduction in beef production, milk production and so on. Mr. Barnes is saying that he has not seen any modelling in that regard, or calculations that might indicate loss of jobs, farm income, export potential. There is no analysis of that, or is there?