Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Overview of Land Use: EPA and Teagasc

2:55 pm

Dr. Rogier Schulte:

I will answer that part of the question. GLAS by its very name refers to low carbon agriculture. To the best of my understanding, the GLAS proposals have not been finalised and are still being developed. We have made a submission to the public consultation process conducted by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. One of the things we proposed in our submission, for example, is to use the carbon navigator as one of the GLAS methods to promote the measures, raise awareness among farmers that carbon efficiency equals economic efficiency and start the debate. Using the carbon navigator, we can spring the green measures, as we refer to them, that will reduce the carbon footprint. The scheme is being developed as we speak but the thinking is there.