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

Can a commitment be given that we will drive the reporting of methane emissions from the agricultural sector agenda in order to ensure that it is recognised in a different status by other countries? Can the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine give an undertaking here before there is any announcement of 5%, 8% or whatever percentage will be talked about? Will the Department give an undertaking that there will be a document showing a pathway with consequences or ways of resolving how we get there that every Deputy, Senator and farmer has the opportunity to look at? Can this undertaking be given? At the moment, we are being asked the questions. In fairness, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine does not yet know. The danger is that this could explode if the Government does not do it right. What it needs following an announcement are all the ways of reaching the target. It is like typing how to get from my house to Dublin into Google and it will show you. The Department went around the country with regard to the CAP. The biggest problem we are seeing is that the media seems to have all the information before we have anything, which is not acceptable nowadays. I am asking that this comes out, that we know what we are looking at and that it is accurate reporting and not someone adding 40 times more to it than what is on it.

We can decide then if it is acceptable or if there is a different story to it. Can we be given that undertaking?