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

My understanding is that we are using figures on default and that Teagasc - and I went to Sligo to see where it was setting up on what we call peaty soil - is only now getting the figures together. That is going to take a while. Many of the figures we are using at present are worst case scenario that we have no research on. That is not good. It is the same for climate action. We are using the figures the EPA is using and we are shafting our own people. We are saying this is putting out this and that is putting out that and we are using figures from other countries that could have totally different landscapes, and which are starting to evolve now with some of the information that is filtering through. We are making decisions for the future of farming without having the knowledge of where we are going. That is what I worry about, that we will do an injustice to these people because we do not have the research done. Are the officials worried about that?