Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Some have been successful. Under TAMS, we are funding low-emissions slurry spreading, which is dealing with ammonia production. Through Teagasc, we are encouraging participation in grassland management. The problem for us is that every five years or so a major opportunity comes around to engineer programmes under the Common Agricultural Policy. For example, under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, we are spending hundreds of millions and under the BDGP we are spending hundreds of millions.