Mr. Charles Stanley-Smith:

One area of the climate action plan will be very problematic. The amount of high-carbon farming land in this country is quite large and emits about 7 million tonnes of greenhouse gases per year, which is roughly half of what agriculture emits. It is under LULUCF and is in a different box. It has to be done in this country. It is a huge chunk. A proper plan needs to be put in place. There needs to be recompense for those involved who need to be moved to other parts of farming. It will be a significant problem and nobody seems to be talking about how we are going to achieve it.

I appeared in front of the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine-----