Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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There is very little information within the sector either. Part of the problem has been that many of the areas where the agriculture sector, that is, farmers, can play a proactive role in emission reduction targets actually affect other sectors within the climate action plan. Renewable energy generation falls under the energy category. Likewise anaerobic digestion and solar power and forestry, where there has been a lot of debate that it actually falls under the land use, land use change and forestry, LULUCF, category. There is a lack of joined-up thinking as to how we can use measures adopted on farms that affect other categories to be part of the holistic response to reducing emissions. Part of that is going to be budgetary, I agree.