Mr. Jack Nolan:

Yes, definitely. The committee should know that since 2015 we have increased milk output by 13.5%, whereas emissions have only increased by 1.6%. Massive efficiency gains are happening at the moment. Latvia and Lithuania are similar countries to ourselves. Transport contributes significantly, but as was said in the opening statement, agricultural emissions are unusually high here. We are a rural based country that does not really have heavy industry. At the moment we are developing more efficient agriculture. We have 137,000 carbon footprints which have been prepared by Bord Bia over the last number of years and 24.5 million pieces of information on beef herds which we are using to try to help farmers to become more efficient. At the conference of parties in Bonn at the moment, gaining in efficiency is being recognised as one of the ways forward for agriculture. Ireland is leading the way in climate-smart farming. It is not just about numbers, but also about how efficiently we can produce.