Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I think we need to pay for a whole new generation of people coming in. Not to disrespect anyone who is an older farmer, but their sons and daughters need to have a clear economic future going into the family farm and the current system does not really incentivise that. The solution to this is for us to provide income certainty to farmers and to pay for nature as well. One of the reasons I am in favour - I would be interested in the Deputy's perspective on the nature restoration law, which I presume he supports - is that it provides an opportunity in addition to some of the energy ones I mentioned earlier where we to start pay farmers for protection of nature. That is the way to go.