Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Climate Change Issues: Discussion

4:00 pm

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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If we go down the route of extra planting and farming, what is the witnesses' prediction as to the number of farmers who will be in Ireland in ten years' time? When a lot of trees are sown in an area, one loses the people in a community. Deputy Martin Kenny's native county is an example and I know what he is talking about. Has the Department done any projections on that?