Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I absolutely agree regarding the engagement of the agricultural sector, farming communities and the food industry. They must be involved. It is not, however, a case of a lack of engagement and involvement or a lack of plans and strategy. I am thinking about the fact that the whole EU farm to fork strategy has been the centre of policy. It is not complete and continues to evolve, but it is central to European policy. In our policy, the Origin Green programme goes back six, seven or eight years There has been significant monitoring and measuring of greenhouse gas emissions in Irish agriculture. We are often ahead of other countries in this regard, so it is not as if we have not been engaged. Bord Bia's central marketing strategy relates to Origin Green and the monitoring and management of emissions. It has been contentious and the environmental movement was not happy with some of that process, but the FoodWise strategy and the work done in that regard, including by the likes of Tom Arnold, involved huge engagement and stakeholder consultation, and no one could say otherwise. It was all focused on this decarbonisation path-----