Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

If the Business Committee could facilitate the taking of the Bill, I would like to see it expedited. Based on the current trajectory, we will have an enormous challenge to meet our 2030 targets. We will need to reconcile our ambitions in Food Wise 2025, the need for food security in the European Union, carbon leakage in food production and our climate change targets for 2030. When Commissioner Phil Hogan was here recently, he highlighted CAP reform. We will need to consider mainstreaming measures such as the smart farming initiative. We have huge challenges ahead of us. The projections to 2020 do not include the measures we have announced in the national development plan to spend €1 in every €5 in the next decade on climate-related measures. They do not take fully into account the measures provided for in the mitigation plan. We need to consider not just how we spend money but also, as I said to Deputy Eamon Ryan, the regulatory and taxation structure.

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