Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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Ireland's position is way down the bottom. If we are waiting for the Department of the Environment, Climate Action and Communications to internalise it into the thinking of enterprise, it will take an awfully long time. Someone needs to have a big tent, as it were, and bring people together, for example, in food, which is probably the biggest one we have. From farm to fork, there are immense opportunities to better manage that chain. Instead of pointing the finger at farmers all the time that they ought to clean up their act, the reality is that the whole chain must transform itself. I do not know who is going to hold that ring. The Dutch have created this sort of tent. They bring people in and then there is an obligation on all of the different players along the chain to collaborate. I feel that is missing in Ireland.