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. Eimear Cotter:

The Deputy asked at the beginning of his questions which agricultural emissions we referred to. I can tell him that methane and nitric oxide emissions come primarily from the agricultural sector. A small amount of CO2 comes from combustion which is produced by machinery and so on, but predominantly it is methane and nitric oxide. My Teagasc colleagues will answer the second part of the Deputy's question.