Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The production of meat and dairy is positive in terms of feeding people. Key to this is continuing our work and taking every step we can to reduce that production’s emissions footprint. Meat and dairy production is something that our country has been doing for a long time and meat and dairy are staple parts of diets in many other parts of the world. Our herd size is just 4% larger than it was 50 years ago. This production is something that we should keep doing. It is an important activity.