Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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Senator Lombard made a very interesting comparison between this and the advances genomic and breeding data got us with regard to milk production. I most definitely am in a position where I accept climate change and that we have to reduce our emissions and our use of nitrogen, but we have to do that without affecting production. We can do that by embracing this modern technology.

I thank everyone for coming in to us today. We might be putting more questions to them in the future because I think their technology is evolving the whole time. I strongly advocate, and I am sure others feel the same way, that we finance this technology going forward. It will be money well spent. It is of value to everyone; not just for the farmers but for the benefit of the climate. We will discuss this again when we finish this meeting today. It will be very much on the agenda that we have to promote the technology and embrace it as much as we can.