Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 June 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission
10:00 am
Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The agenda of today's meeting is land use and maximising its usage and potential. The concern is that hydraulic fracturing, if it were to go ahead, could have a knock-on impact on the environment in an area that has Natura sites and agricultural land. I appreciate the delegates may not have been expecting a question on fracking but the issue is the environmental impact on farming or land use.