Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I only have a couple of seconds left, so I will ask my last question. If reductions are achieved from growing our own feed as opposed to importing, those emissions reductions need to go towards farming and that target.

On the conversation around the national herd and this obsession with it, I am regularly contacted by farmers who are seriously concerned and they mention figures of 30%. They ask what the Government is doing by cutting the herd by 30%. I have to allay their fears one by one that this is not our intention. We are not cutting the herd by 30%; we are not reducing the herd. Can the Minister allay those fears? There are measures set out in the climate action plan on how to reduce emissions in agriculture. Can he allay the fears of those farmers that it is not our intention to cull herds or reduce the herd by 30%? That is a message we need to get out to our rural communities.