Failure by the Government to update farmers on proposed policies to tackle climate change could have serious implications for Irish farming.
That's the latest message from the Irish Farmers' Association which says Ministers are not honouring their own commitments to tackle the problem.
It says legislation passed last year gave a commitment to update farmers on policy changes in this area but they claim this hasn't happened yet.
IFA President Tim Cullinan says his members are still waiting for a report on the full economic assessment of Climate change on Irish agriculture:
"We've been asking government for a substantial amount of time now to do a full economic impact assessment on all of this and show where this would leave the country overall and where it would leave the sector, a sector that employs over 165,000 people. I think it's very, very important before we move forward, that the government has a responsibility to ensure that they look at everything before they do."
