Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants

9:00 am

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I take the Deputy's point. There were no sectoral targets. Until the climate action plan was published, there was a national target. We have actions laid out in the national plan and we are just on the point of publishing our own detailed action plan on how we are going to deliver that. There will be quarterly reporting arrangements with the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. We will be required to report to the Department of the Taoiseach on how we are doing. We have a roadmap of specific action laid out. Some of that will be dependent on how we configure the next Common Agricultural Policy because we need to configure the measures in that to encourage and support farmers in delivering what they must do.