Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I find I am in agreement with the Minister there. There is no point in incentivising overproduction.

The definition of sustainable is "able to be maintained at a particular level without causing damage to the environment". In 2013 the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine made efforts to block a ban on pesticides within the EU, linked to the collapse in the bee population in Europe. After a meeting with a delegation from Monsanto was arranged in September 2016 at Monsanto's request, the Minister also reversed his Department's July 2016 decision that Ireland would prohibit all pre-harvest use of glyphosate on food crops and allow it only for weed control in non-food crops. Has the Department carried out any environmental impact assessments to support these decisions?

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