Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Here is my difficulty. I have seen no proposal to do that at a practical level. What I saw was more general, baseline studies that say "This is what the average farm with 15 cows emits". My fear is that you could have a situation where a farmer is actually engaging in forestry, ensuring the hedgerows are protected and expanded, planting mixed species swards, engaging in anaerobic digestion and installing solar panels on the sheds and reducing fertiliser use but when it comes down to brass tacks, that farmer will be treated exactly the same as another farmer who has done none of those things unless there is a farm-by-farm audit. Are there proposals to carry out a farm-by-farm audit throughout the State to include every one of our farms?