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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 (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

...is much worse. We have things we can learn from in the past and maybe from some of what the Deputy talked about around how we did our forestry or whatever. Consider what happened in terms of peat, however. The picture was painted for us well in advance but we did not take the proactive positive steps I think we can now with this. My concern is this. We talk about bureaucracy....

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 (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: ...going forward. It even brought in its own mechanism of measuring. Is there a space at some level where we need to look at that for the entire ethos of our soils to ask what are and are not our peat soils, what are the pH levels in these soils, what are the phosphorous and potassium levels all the way down to grass measuring and where that ties in? If that was to happen, what does Mr....

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 (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

...of travel on carbon and carbon policy is very important. As I said, the other ask I would have is to baseline every hectare we have because as the Vice Chairman mentioned, it would pick up peatlands and others to understand where exactly we are on that. I will make one other point. Ireland is unique because 21% of the land base - I think it is 21% but I can be corrected - is organic...