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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: First, I welcome what the Minister of State has said, but so long as there is no clear picture of what a revenue stream from sound environmental farming will mean in ten or 20 years' time, this uncertainty and unease will continue. We know, for example, that raising water levels on certain lands has huge carbon dividends. We know that benchmarking and reducing emissions by sequestration or...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I thank the Deputy and agree with him. We have a sense of what we know we should be doing. On the data piece, I agree that we could wait forever for exact data, and it is continually evolving anyway in some regards. Even recently, data from Teagasc last year showed that we have overestimated...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: Is it not the case that if we are to see a significant scaling-up of activity, and I think that is necessary, there are going to have to be substantial rewards linked to them? Surely, on a no-regrets basis, we should be making those substantial rewards available so that a step change can be considered by people who want a long-term commercial and prosperous family future. We need to take a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): One of the challenges is being able to measure it and being able to reward farmers appropriately for their actions, and what actions they might take on their own land. As I said, we are supporting farmers in different ways through different schemes to manage their lands in different ways....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Agriculture Industry
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: 61. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the potential of a carbon farming initiative in the transformation of the sustainability profile of the farming sector. [18080/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: The Minister knows that farmers worry that their transition to a sustainable model of farming will not sustain prosperous family farms into the long term. There are many in this House and outside it who want to fan the fears of farmers. I believe a clear pathway to a carbon farming approach could reassure many farmers. To date, the detail in that regard is scanty, which creates uncertainty.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): My Department has committed to the development of an enabling framework, which can potentially reward farmers and landowners partaking in emissions mitigation and carbon removal activities. However, we are awaiting direction from Europe on this. On 20 February 2024, the European Parliament and...