Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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Say Deputies Cahill, Carthy, Paul Daly or I as farmers have 50 acres of land and 50 cows or 200 ewes or whatever. Will there come a day and, in Mr. Callanan's opinion, when will it come that a farmer will be looked at individually and told the cows are allegedly putting up 100 tonnes or whatever of carbon and he or she has to have X, Y or Z to mitigate that? Will that come or will we stay on the nitrates road we are on at the moment?