Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It was disappointing to read the sections on agriculture in the first report of the Climate Change Advisory Council. It is not clear that there is a strong appetite among the members of the advisory council to address the rising levels of greenhouse gases in the sector. The council's approach is summed up by the following sentence from its report, "an approach to carbon neutrality in the agriculture and land-use sector, including forestry [is envisaged] which does not compromise capacity for sustainable food production." The report does not define "carbon neutrality" or "sustainable food production". The Minister might do so.

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