Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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From my perspective, in terms of farmers doing their bit for nature, they want to restore habitats and rewild. However, whatever way you want to phrase it, there is going to have to be proper payment and proper compensation. ACRES has certainly had a lot of interest. Many farmers have signed up for that - close to 40,000 - but the measures need to be bigger and, therefore, the payment and compensation needs to be bigger.

One of the many elephants in the room is the fact that we have not yet set a budget for land use, land use change and forestry, LULUCF, or targets either. When can we expect to see those budgets and targets set for LULUCF?