Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion
Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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I thank our guests for their input and they were very well researched. Solar companies appeared before our committee before our current witnesses did and they obviously had vested interests. Our present guests, however, were giving an insight from the point of view of the industry, what can be saved and what this can do to meet more emissions targets. Leaving climate change aside completely, there is an economic benefit from doing this so one is therefore winning on both ends. There is an economic benefit and one is battling climate change. It goes down the road I like, which is to be told what we can do for climate change and not what we cannot do. I thank our guests very much for their input. We might come back to our witnesses again to look for more in-depth analysis.