Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has recently moved his attention to Food Wise 2025, the new ten-year strategy for the agri-food sector, which was published last July. He claims that the strategy builds on the successful vision of Food Harvest 2020. However, An Taisce concluded that the plan was nonsense and had no realistic assessment of its impact on the environment. An Taisce stated:

Overall, the draft report is unconvincing, inappropriately promotional, and quite difficult to follow even within its own framework. It is not in the national interest nor in the farm organisations' interest to have such a major agricultural policy plan based on such a flawed environmental assessment.

Does the Minister have details of any analysis carried out, or commissioned, into the expected effects of the programme on the environment?

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