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. John Enright:

Mr. Loftus made the point that the dairy farmer is taking over the land of the suckler farmer; that is not the case. The reality is that some suckler farmers have decided to transfer to dairy farming. They have switched their enterprise. That was their personal choice. It is wrong to say that 18,000 to 20,000 farmers are trying to run the whole country for farmers. That is incorrect.