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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: All right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: I thank Professor O'Connor. We need to do a little bit of work on it. I am conscious of the time. We were talking about afforestation earlier. The Teagasc opening statement mentions that " if afforestation rates were to continue at current rates (or up to 3,500 ha per annum) [which would actually be a big improvement on current rates], the forest sink sequestration rate would be less...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: Mr. Spink can be honest here. He is among friends. There is nothing to say he cannot tell the Government it is talking through its hat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: That is because the forest is not going to be planted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: It could be said the Department is doing its bit on that given the licencing system it has at the moment, though I do not know if that is its intention. This is obviously very serious because this is to make up a big part of our commitment under LULUCF and is part of the climate action plan. Thus, in all reality, with the best management in place do the witnesses see a scenario given the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: That will have an impact on the post-2030 figures.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: From what year? I hope Dr. Lanigan is not going to say last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: That is an elegant diplomatic way of saying that the targets in this part of the climate action plan will not be met and certainly not by 2030.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: That would mean an even greater backlog of timber. Therefore, it will not happen without a big economic cost. That is the point I was trying to make. We had a good discussion on the role of peatlands in carbon emissions, particularly the peatlands that have been brought into agricultural use. Proportionately it might be a small amount of land, but in some parts of the country entire...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: Therefore, we do not actually know what -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: Would it be of the order of half of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: It should be more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: That is good news in one way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: I have one more question. Does the Chairman wish to come in on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: I have a final question. I see different figures for our targets for organic production. Does Teagasc have a breakdown per hectare of the percentage reduction in emissions following the move to organic production in each of the sectors? Does it know the emissions saved if a beef farm moves to organic production? The same applies in dairy, tillage, etc.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: What is the current figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: But even on the sampling of soil-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: Devinish can then extrapolate that across the whole-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: Does Mr. Hagan wish to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Matt Carthy: In the context of the different measures farmers can take on an on-farm basis, are we at a point that with some reliability Devinish can assess the improvements in terms of storage over a period?