Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Climate change. Could he explain that?

Ireland is basically a grass-based country. As was outlined by the professor, this could move to other places that might not be as good at doing it. What would his solutions for Ireland be? In the line of this word that is going around at the moment in relation to a "cull" of the national herd - it is causing major problems in Holland at the moment - what would his solutions be in basically all the science that he looked at?

I have a question for Professor Mitloehner. My understanding is that in California, or perhaps some other state in America, they are using a seaweed that has been adapted and the government has given the go-ahead, which has reduced methane. Going back 100, 80, 50 or 30 years, what were the world's herds like? How were they compared to now? Are they stable or are they now less than they were before? What is it like in that way?

We have seen spikes at times when gas wells and that were not being kept. Are there spikes associated with other things in methane where the farmer gets the bashing the whole time? What would the percentage of that be? Dumps are another example. I worked in a dump myself. They were redoing it down in Clare and there is a flame burning there all the time because of where there was dumping done for years. What are the percentages? We keep looking at one road of where the agriculture is, but no one seems to be looking at where those dumps are put or where those gas wells are. In some countries, things were not done too well. Could both our witnesses give us a briefing on the likes of that?