Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion

Mr. John Spink:

There is no more being made available. It has to be suitable land in the right places. There are a huge number of considerations. I believe there is enough seed, perhaps, to increase our spring planting by about 50,000 ha, which would give somewhere in the order of 350,000 tonnes of additional grain. However, there are many other things. One has got to have-----