Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Does the Minister agree with me that we are not investing sufficiently in water defences at present when we bear in mind the weather has probably become less predictable owing to climate change?

The Minister is just out of the agriculture Ministry. Does he have concerns about the fact that the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, encourages farmers to clear upland areas? In doing so, it is effectively subsidising farmers to flood villages. It does not make sense to be clearing certain lands. Farmers get subsidies to create a faster flow of water to villages. Does the Government have any plan to tackle that?

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