John Gibbons: Ireland needs an emergency food stockpile
Despite the notion that Ireland is a 'food island', we import four fifths of our food and much of our agriculture sector is devoted to import-dependent intensive livestock production. We will be in a very bad place if world food supplies dry up.
At any given time, around 1.7m tonnes of oil are held in the Irish State’s national reserve, most of it stored in facilities around the country.
This strategic stockpile is managed by the National Oil Reserves Agency (Nora) and is designed to provide a 90-day emergency buffer in the event of a dire emergency in which Ireland is unable to import liquid fuels for an extended period.
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