Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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35. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the accounting methodology to be used for calculating emissions and removals from land use for the foreseeable future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51631/21]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy will be aware that it is the responsibility of the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare the reports on emissions and removals associated with land use activities on an annual basis to the EU and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Furthermore, the Government is in the process of making regulations, as part of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021, to determine how the removal of greenhouse gas emissions may be taken into account for national targets, and in particular the method of calculating and accounting for such removals. When making these regulations the Government shall have regard to the rules applied by the European Union.