Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA

Mr. Niall Curley:

The Deputy is dead right. It is a complicated one. If we say "peatlands" so many times, we lose the sense of the word. The Deputy is correct in questioning it. One of the main issues that we - and a lot of people - have with this is the fact that it is quite a complex law proposal already. The draft for which the Council is pushing this coming November will contain specific amendments and a lot more definitions. There will be a lot more clarity, for which member states have asked on a lot of issues in this regard to. It is an extraordinarily complex and unclear proposal in terms of the legal wording.