Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will go back to the article:

So, while the looming carbon budget could totally undermine Irish agriculture sector output in the name of an environmental ideology that views livestock production as equivalent to oil exploration, there is a row in the agri dressing room about sucklers versus dairy beef. A row equivalent to a fight over the deckchairs on the titanic, with the iceberg visible in plain sight in my view. [That of the journalist.]

Ireland’s economy and society is facing a tough post Covid-19, mid-Brexit challenge, with headwinds also likely from the new approach to a minimum single Corporation Tax of 15%. Within the modern Irish economy, sectors such as agriculture (which supports 260,000 jobs ...) can continue to underpin this unique Irish economy impact. At the same time, they can decarbonise production processes based on science reason and balance, while also responding to real customer and consumer demands.

We really don’t need to out do the British with a set of climate bills and budgets that perversely lead to, not just Irish economy suppression but, global food price increases and increases in global emissions from agriculture.

And the sooner the focus of all in Irish agriculture is on articulating both the damage caused and the opportunity that can be grasped, the better.

There is a lot about the Government's policy that does not match the words we hear from the Government. If we were to put 100,000 electric cars on the road in Ireland today, the infrastructure would not be there to support them and the grid would collapse. We are already hearing that with just 30,000 cars the grid is in trouble, and we may well have blackouts for the winter. We do not have the solar farms to circumvent situations when we do not have the wind blowing. In Wexford when the sun shines the wind does not blow. We do not have the ability to feed the electricity from solar farms into the grid because the grid cannot take it.

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