Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed)

12:30 pm

Mr. Joe Healy:

I do not think GLAS had a lot to do with the nurseries running short. We hit our targets for the planting of hedgerows very early and we hit the targets in the GLAS programme as well. The funding was used up.

Demand is there for dairy and beef protein products. That is what farmers are doing. We are supplying a market that is there and looks likely to grow. As I said, we are the most carbon efficient producers of dairy products in the EU and in the top five in beef. While the demand is there, let us produce it in the countries that are carbon efficient at producing it.

What was the last part of the Senator's question?