![]() are fiddling around the edges, and very unlikely to have any real effect.įarmers, as ever, are on their own. If it was, there'd be more fanfare around it and some sort of realistic plan would be at least on paper. They might have announced 25% last week, but you can tell their heart isn't in it. I might wish this wasn't the case, but the Government will be very slow to reduce food exports and the related jobs/revenue the sector generates. Did we ever get the €13bn? Will we ever get it? Who knows. I haven't checked, but as far as I can tell, the issue has since fallen off the agenda. ![]() I know it's "legally binding" but what does that mean in reality? The Government was apparently legally bound to take €13bn in uncollected tax revenue from Apple, but first it challenged this decision in Europe and then it delayed everything, dragging its feet as the most preferred mode of travel. Genuine question: will this 25% notional figure slowly fade when the current Government is out of office and the Greens are on 3-4% for another few elections? We really should be looking at an agro forestry model that combines small and linear plots with conventional farming as is practiced in many parts of the EU. Recent figures from the EPA also show outdated forestry practices are putting alot of pressure on water quality and fish habitat in a growing number of catchments and is a signficant factor in the collapse over the last 30 years in the number of "pristine" rated lakes/rivers, especially on upland peat soils. ![]() Outdated forestry policies has it ruined by going down the road of block planting non-native spruce on peat rich soils which made no sense from a climate or biodiversity point of view - alot of the delays also caused by the likes of Coillte flooding the system with substandard applications in large tranches that required extra staff with compliance knowledge in Ecology, water quality etc. ![]()
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