Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

A comment was made earlier about the categorisation of emissions and removals across disciplines that is leaving agriculture particularly exposed to carry the can for other sectors. The point was made that the carbon removals by forestry, grassland and other lands were accounted for in the forestry ledger of land use, while emissions from grass-fed cattle are counted in the agriculture ledger. Is it not reasonable for farmers to have concerns that the shortfall in CO2 that would result from poor afforestation levels will have to be picked up by them and that there will be other mitigation measures later?