Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank Professor Allen. I understand that. He has clarified things for me. It is really important that we do not walk out of this room and say that methane from ruminant livestock is effectively benign because it is part of this natural cycle. The inference from that would be that we could increase numbers by ten or 100 times and it would not matter. Professor Allen is not saying that but the inference could be that it is part of this natural cycle. He is very clearly saying that methane does have an impact and he was very clear about the increase in herd size. He said it has had a warming impact.