John Gibbons

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Should Farmers Get Funding To Help The Environment? · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

So this is a successful sector.

But there is a huge price to be paid by the general public and by the, I suppose, the wider community for that success.

We're paying it, for example, in diminished water quality.

We're paying it.

And I think we're definitely going to be looking at colossal EU compliance fines.

We know the range of between 8 billion and 26 billion within the next five to six years.

And these really are coming down the line.

I can see you looking at me skeptically.

But these really are coming down the line.

Other countries, Matt, who have achieved their compliance are already queuing up to say, hang on a second, we signed up for this, where's our compliance funding?

And that funding will come from the non-compliers like Ireland.

And unfortunately, Ireland in terms of compliance is almost the bottom of the list.

And I'm sorry to say, but a huge part of that has been the fact that the agri sector, tied as it is to an expansionary model of livestock and particularly of intensive dairying,

is going in one direction, and that is the exact wrong direction.

But it's feeding us, isn't it?

But it's not.

That's the thing, Matt, right?

Well, let's divide it up into two things.

First of all, we could, I'm not saying we should, we could reduce our beef and livestock sector by 80 to 85%.

By how much?

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