Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion

Ms Edwina Love:

We are engaged in a constructive process to fulfil the Government's ambitions in this area. The targets we have put forward are very challenging. We set that out clearly in our opening statement. Whether it is afforestation or the measures we are seeking to implement on-farm, these are not easy things to do. We are not pretending that they are easy. In terms of organics, the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, announced this morning that the new Common Agricultural Policy strategic plan, CSP, will have increased rates with the objective of increasing organic farming. These are all very challenging things, however. The fundamental point the Deputy is making is that the window for doing this is closing. We accept that. Unfortunately, the solutions are still in development across the board. As my colleague, Mr. Crammond, mentioned, these are things that are in train in terms of the research. We do not have them yet. If there were silver bullets available now, we would implement them. They are not available.

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