Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary)

3:00 pm

Photo of Thomas PringleThomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent)
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Will the Minister comment on the context and impact indicators for the section relating to climate change? These provide positive figures for the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from agriculture. In the past three years, the figures have increased from 18.78 million metric tonnes to 19.5 million metric tonnes. This is 0.71 million metric tonnes below the baseline figure. On what is this figure based? Where are these figures from?