Mr. James Healy:

Young farmers are the future environmentalists because farmers and environmentalists have more in common. Farmers are dependent on the environment to give them the tools to produce foodstuffs. There are many advances which could be used to address the rise in the emissions without necessarily changing the targets in Food Wise 2025. Many of the mitigation tools, such as the Teagasc MACC, offer significant advances which can be made without necessarily hindering the increased intensification of Irish agriculture.