Dr Oliver Moore

Well, I suppose we're especially exposed because we're an island off the northwest coast of Europe and we've really focused on agri-food exports and we've kind of let the domestic ball slip, really.

We're losing vegetable growers all the time and we don't even have targets in Food Vision 2030 for what our domestic market could be and could grow to.

So we really focus on, we've exported 19 billion euros worth of food last year, but we are importing about 12 billion.

And we import, you know, fresh fruit and veg from the city of Spain in particular and from Holland and so on.

And so just to follow up on, you know, diets and poverty and so on, like half a million people are in food poverty in Ireland.

And you would use one third of your income to have a healthy diet in Ireland if you're a low income person.

person.

So we're especially exposed and we really have never really built our local food economy.

We've really focused on exports.

So supporting local food producers through things like a basic income for local food producers like we did for artists could be a savvy thing to start to do now as well because

Yeah, like trade, we have a fuel crisis and a fertilizer crisis at the same time.

And we have just-in-time delivery systems into supermarkets.

We have extreme supermarket concentration in Ireland.

And that means then as well with just-in-time delivery, the storage is in lorries and in ships.

it's not in the back of the shop anymore.

So lorries and ships are obviously extremely dependent on trade working and on fossil fuels.

And also people seem to forget as well, I mean, there was all the tariffs that Trump landed on the world anyway, as well.

So there's a cascade of crises landing at the one time and we don't even have targets for growing our domestic food production.

Yeah, like we've created that.

I mean, we always had a poor local food economy provisioning system because we were an extractive colony.