Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have negligible big farms. It is a family farm model. It is not like other countries. The average farm size in the country is 32 ha. The average number of dairy cows per farm is 85.

Farm sizes in beef and sheep are much smaller. Our system is very different from those in other countries in Europe and across the Irish Sea, where there are much larger farms. It is not the case that the top 1% of farmers here are producing 30% of emissions; it is spread across all family farms.