Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Malcolm Noonan (Green Party)
Surely that goes back to the point that Mr. Murphy mentioned about the climate and nature fund. A significant portion of that, some €650 million, was to be set aside. This was the start of a rolling fund. It is a question I put to Department officials about moving out of projects with a short-term projects, such as LIFE and EIPs. They have been brilliant, but many farmers might make a lifestyle choice to reduce herd sizes if they were being paid full benefits for climate, nature and water, and if long-term certainty was built into those schemes such that they were not just five- or seven-year cycles but were actually embedded into the next CAP strategic plan. Does Mr. Murphy have a view on that?
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