It is becoming very clear that the Taoiseach and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine are now looking for cow numbers to be reduced. This is at a time Brazil is cutting down rainforests to increase its cow numbers and despite the fact farmers here were advised to increased production only two short years ago. They were told the Chinese would drink a lot of milk. We all know what the Chinese have done to us now.

They are still drinking milk.

Clearly, farmers have invested a lot of time and money in their herds and in environmental protection. Why are they being treated like this? Irish farmers, and all the people of Ireland, are under the same sky as other countries. Why are farmers here being treated like this after all they have spent, having been advised to do so. What is the Government at?

I thank the Deputy for raising this important matter. I wish to put on the record of the House the ambition Irish farmers have. First, I would like to say how proud we are of the fact we produce some of the most sustainably produced food in the world. We feed multiple millions more around the world than we do in our own population. We know we too have a role to play in making our food production even more sustainable into the future. I am very proud of the fact the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is the first Department to publish its roadmap for how we will meet the challenges and targets ahead. I refer to the Ag Climatise roadmap, which has 29 clear points set out for how we will navigate agriculture into the future and meet the ambition we all have to make our food even more sustainable into the future.

We are all under the same sky.