Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My closing comment is that the emphasis is on decarbonising our economy. We all have to contribute to it and we also have to back it up scientifically but we do not always do that. We are not always treated equally across the globe. For example, on the television one might see a series of smoke stacks and emissions of all descriptions might be belched out. That is not happening in this country. It is somewhere else. It is imported to sell a concept. That issue should not be treated in isolation. For instance, some people say the farming community should be compensated to do other things. It is not about that. It is about food production. We cannot exist without food and we are good at it so we should be loath to ignore the importance of food production in this jurisdiction from a national and European point of view.