Mr. John Hourigan:

Absolutely. How I ended up here is that I got my Bord Bia carbon footprint, which indicated I was emitting 714 tonnes of carbon dioxide. I talked to a professor in the University of Limerick who told me my forestry was removing about 400 tonnes and my grass was removing around another 300 or 400 tonnes, so I was net neutral. Is that not what we all want to be? If more farmers were net neutral, we would not have a problem but we are not allowed to account for what we are removing. Down the line, if we are not allowed account for the removals by our forestry and grassland, it is a pointless discussion. We are going nowhere.