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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: We will let the Minister speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Let the Minister answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Senator Boylan can come in again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Sorry, it is Deputy Cronin's slot. Deputy Cronin may continue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I will ask Deputy Cronin to be very brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister and Deputy Cronin. As we go forward, I will allow a back-and-forth between the member whose slot it is. It was Deputy Cronin slot just now, and there was back-and-forth between the Deputy and the Minister. If anybody comes in and it is not their slot, I will consider that disorderly conduct. I ask members not to interrupt colleagues when they are asking questions of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I believe Senator Higgins is joining us from her office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I ask Senator Higgins to please be mindful of her time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I ask the Senator to let the Minister answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Senator Higgins is out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: If the Senator stops interrupting, the Minister might have a chance to answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Will the Minister expand on that last comment about growing grass for anaerobic digestion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: There have been challenges in other countries around growing a feed stock directly for anaerobic digestion. There have been challenges around food production, which is an important priority, and there are local environmental challenges in balancing the objectives. Obviously we want - and we have agreed politically to support - anaerobic digestion to the tune of 200 anaerobic digesters...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: There was a reference earlier to the exemption for hedgerows of under 500 m and the Minister indicated he will be willing to reconsider and revise that in the next few months. I hope that within April or May, or at least very soon thereafter, we that 500 m exemption could be revised downwards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister for clarifying that. In response to Senator Pauline O'Reilly, he commented on an exit scheme, if that is the correct term, for dairy farmers. Did he say he would be coming forward with proposals on that in the next few months?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: With regard to the 1 March deadline and the 1 September date at the other end, has there been any discussion about changing those dates and bringing them forward to February and later in September, respectively?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Did the Minister say 3,000 ha will be rewetted under ACRES?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: The target for 2025 is 30,000 ha. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: It is not just ACRES that is going to deliver that-----