Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Absolutely. I can indeed. The Deputy is correct. Particularly around the setting of the climate targets and what the figure would be for agriculture, there was a sense out there among some that what we were talking about was a percentage reduction in food production or a percentage reduction in our herd. That is not what we want to do. We want to cut and reduce our emissions profile. Our 25% target is to reduce emissions from the food we produce and that is doable. We also need to continue to produce food and play a role domestically and internationally. We need more food internationally. It is getting harder to produce precisely because of the climate challenge in more climate-vulnerable parts of the world. We witnessed it across southern Europe last year in the massive challenge created by the drought that came as far as our own south coast. Thankfully, we were not affected in the way the rest of Europe was. We will continue to be productive but reduce the emissions footprint of how we do it. Our 25% target relates to emissions reduction, not food or stock reduction.