Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister's comprehensive reply. If someone in some other commission has a brainstorm and tries to increase the area of wetlands in this country, perhaps in an attempt to create a European carbon sink, that will obviously have a detrimental impact on our agrifood sector. In view of our economy's high dependency on the agrifood sector, is the Minister completely satisfied that he will be in a position to ensure that sector continues to grow? Will he take account of the development of non-fossil alternative fuels in this jurisdiction to reinforce his argument and intensify the case on behalf of the Irish economy?

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