Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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One thing surprised me when we had scientists before the committee talking about rewetting land and various things that would improve the biodiversity of land and its capacity to absorb carbon. They could not give us a relatively simple matrix that would allow us to say that if we paid farmers to do X, there would be a certain benefit on the other side of the equation from which the farmers would be able to get a yield. It ended up with them saying this was too vague and not accurate enough and it was not possible to measure what a hectare would save in terms of sequestration. We do not seem to be getting close to carbon farming, or whatever we would like to call it.