Phil Hogan: Agri-sector will help meet climate-change targets

Ireland’s EU commissioner, the former Fine Gael minister Phil Hogan, has said that our agriculture sector would “play its part” in the country meeting its climate-change targets.

Speaking at an EU commission lunch in Dublin yesterday, he said that despite media commentary, emissions from agriculture had fallen, whereas transport emissions had increased, without mention.

But in a hard-hitting and wide-ranging address, Mr Hogan said the migrant crisis was the “greatest challenge facing Europe since the Second World War”.