The EU’s current billion-euro subsidy model, supported by successive Irish governments, is based on the area of land in production. This is more suited to livestock and dairy production - our largest emitting sectors.
In addition, a range of national subsidies and supports are largely aimed at dairy and livestock production and according to the Central Statistics Office ,in potentially environmentally damaging subsidies dished out in 2016 went to the agriculture sector.
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