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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Savage. I am going to push things along because we have to finish the session at 10.30 a.m. We have half an hour and I have four members looking to come in. I propose that we take eight minutes for questions and answers for each of the members. I call Deputy Bruton.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: Deputy Carthy, if you wish to come in again, you have about a minute and a half left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: The Co-Chairman, Deputy Cahill, has returned. I do not know if you heard his reaction to that, Deputy Carthy. Before we finish this session of our meeting, I will add to Deputy Carthy's final question. A very interesting point has been made. Governments, not just in Ireland but all over the world, use the levers available to them to try to enact change across sectors in society. What I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: For that we need very good technology and metrics at the farm level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: Mr. Savage would say that has not happened to date and that there is not enough focus on the farm level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: As a fellow graduate of University of Limerick, I appreciate your noting its pedigree, Mr. Savage. It is a great institution. My time there goes back to the 1990s as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: We probably crossed paths in the Stables all right. That brings us to the end of the first session of the meeting. I will suspend the sitting for a moment to allow our guests to leave and to allow new guests to come in. I thank Mr. Savage for coming to share with us his insight and expertise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: I am going to invite the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Cahill, to step in. I thank him for the opportunity to chair his august committee for an hour.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: We will have to go into private session to show the video. It is an unusual departure for us to have videos at a committee meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: I invite Mr. Boyle to continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: We have to go into private session again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: I welcome our guests and thank them for coming up to us to share their technology and understanding of the sector. It is appreciated and I welcome this science-led approach. The videos the witnesses showed us in the private session were interesting. I want to ask about the 54% methane reduction. I accept that it is independently peer-reviewed but I want to get clarity. The witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: It certainly does. I thank Mr. Boyle for that. Is there research on the water quality point? That is what I am particularly interested in. It sounds like something that should be undertaken if we can show there is a link.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: I am very appreciative of that answer. It is very helpful. I am mindful the time. I know others want to get in but I am interested in that question. Mr. Burke might come back to it in further answers and perhaps show a correlation between improved water quality and the use of technology such as his.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: I am back in the Chair as Deputy Cahill had to leave to attend to some business. Mr. Paul Price, a research assistant at Dublin City University, has joined us. I apologise for keeping him waiting. The previous section of the session ran over time. I will read the note on privilege before we begin. The witness is attending from outside the parliamentary precincts so unlike witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Price for his opening statement. I will now invite members to indicate their wish to ask questions. I will kick off with my questions. We had witnesses before us in the previous sessions. I do not know if Mr. Price watched those. The first witness spoke to the importance of metrics at the farm level to encourage farmers to drive efficiency and, ultimately, emissions reduction...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Price for that. Deputy Cahill has returned. I will invite him to take the Chair again. I will have to leave the meeting shortly myself. I will bring in Senator Paul Daly, who was ahead of Deputy Bruton.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Price. I am interested in his views on those. He cited the difference between Ireland's and Denmark's approaches over the past number of decades. Perhaps he could elaborate on that. I think he said that Denmark maintains protein output, while not increasing either emissions or fertiliser use. I do not quite recall which of the two it was. Could Mr. Price speak more about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Chair and I welcome our guests today. I thank them for coming into the committee. Some of my colleagues noted earlier that this is a sad story. I would like to put on the record that the work of Bord na Móna is not a sad story at all. It is a very positive story from recent years. The company has shown leadership and bravery in adopting its brown to green strategy....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: I mean horticultural peat. Am I correct to say that Bord na Móna has reached an agreement with ICL to develop a new media?