Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Review of Food Harvest 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) with Irish Dairy Board and Bord Bia

2:55 pm

Photo of Susan O'KeeffeSusan O'Keeffe (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate there were a lot of questions but I would like to come back to Mr. Buckley briefly. In regard to that last question, given what we wanted to tease out with him was how to arrive at the challenges and commitments of Food Harvest 2020, I would like to hear a bit more. If he is saying the Irish Dairy Board is on target to deliver but there is actually a big "but", maybe we should draw that out because part of our remit is to examine the "but", along with all the good things the board is doing that will have it on target.

I asked whether the Kerrygold was finished in regard to whether it has capacity over new products. I also asked if it could be used for Irish beef and my colleague also asked about the idea of the co-opting of the Kerrygold brand in another guise altogether. Specifically, we are here to know whether we are going to reach Food Harvest 2020 targets. It is the opportunity to tell us that we are, but the witnesses could perhaps give us more detail.

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