John Gibbons

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873 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Environment: Should We Stockpile Food To Prepare For National Emergencies? · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

It amounts to about two hundred and twenty million euros a year that we spend as a sort of an insurance policy uh to secure uh that gives us ninety days mat of oil on the island of Ireland.

So if something happens bad, okay.

We've got that buffer to get through it.

Now, that got me thinking, right, what else, you know, in these exciting times that we live, what else could happen that would cause chaos in Ireland?

And the most obvious thing, Matt, is a disruption or a breakdown to our food supply.

And what brought this to mind for me is I was reading a report from the Climate Change Council in the UK, and they submitted a report to the British government, and it warned that because Britain only produced

I think it's about 57% of its own food.

There represented a huge risk in the event of a breakdown of international supply chains, that there would be 40% of their food they would have to import.

And this represented a supply chain risk to the UK and like a real danger.

So they've marked this up as a serious risk.

And that got me thinking, what's the equivalent Irish vulnerability?

So rather than in the British case producing about 57%.

Percent of their food on the island of Britain, we produce about somewhere between 15 and 20 percent.

So we're ek we import more than 80 percent of everything that is in your shops and supermarkets.

Now that is an incredible vulnerability.

That's number one.

Number two, look at the supply chains, Matt.

We're at the very edge of Europe.

We're at the end of international supply chains.

And essentially that means that pretty much

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