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

Mr. Tassos Haniotis:

I will ask my colleague in the DG Environment to comment on that, but in the DG Agriculture, fracking is an issue that we have been following in terms of the impact it has on energy costs and its links to fertiliser. Perhaps Mr. Patrick Barrett will have something specific to add from the environmental point of view.