Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

How well are the CAP measures designed to open up this opportunity? I have not studied them closely but I get the impression there are incentives for small adjustments as opposed to recognising an opportunity worth €3,000 per ha. Will the witnesses give an assessment of how well attuned the CAP measures are?

Who is rewetting the 100,000 ha currently being rewetted? Is it farmers or is there a centralised delivery mechanism like in forestry? What is the cost per hectare? I was intrigued by the comment on timber that we should maybe consider delaying harvesting. Having done some work on the circular economy, one of our opportunities is to replace concrete with timber. Where does the view that we should be slowing down the harvesting of timber to allow it to sequester more carbon versus taking some energy-intensive construction methods out and replacing them with timber come from?