Bryan claims climate change law could cost agri-food sector €4bn

IFA president John Bryan believes the Government’s draft climate change legislation surpasses international obligations and could cost €4bn in existing and planned production in the agri-food sector.

“The country cannot afford the loss of sustainable jobs and exports that will accrue from the Government’s Food Harvest 2020 strategy, and a few Greens who no longer have a mandate from the public must not be allowed rush through ill-advised and badly thought-out legislation.”

Mr Bryan has attacked Environment Minister John Gormley’s attempts to quote on radio the wishes of a couple of American multinationals to promote his climate change agenda, when the United States has shown by its own actions in Copenhagen and Cancun that they have no intention of introducing legislation that would damage their economy.