Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the circular economy and minimising waste, we have the Food Vision 2030 strategy, which sets out an overview of that. I will come back to the Deputy specifically with an update on his question.

On carbon farming, we see great potential. At the moment, at European level, we do not have capacity to do carbon farming or have payment specifically for it. There is not a European-wide approach to that. That is being developed at the moment. We expect that to conclude over the next number of months. We will then be able to work off that to put a carbon farming mechanism and system in place. In addition, we are investing heavily through Teagasc, for example, to develop the tools to quantify how we capture carbon and measure it. We have to be able to measure it accurately to then monetise and pay for it. That work is ongoing at the moment.