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

3:05 pm

Photo of Andrew DoyleAndrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Buckley and his colleagues for engaging with us so openly and giving us a good overview. This is the first time the Irish Dairy Board has had an opportunity to come before the committee and I do not recall its coming before the previous committee of which I was a member.

The Irish Dairy Board is critical to developing the potential of Food Harvest 2020 in the dairy sector. There are three aspects to it: production, processing and marketing. The various aspects must interact and feed up and down because there is no point in developing markets without product, and there is no point in developing products unless one can process them and bring them to market. It sounds simple when one summarises it but it is a considerable challenge. I will suspend the meeting for a couple of minutes to allow the representatives of the Irish Dairy Board to vacate the room and to allow Mr. Cotter and his colleagues to be seated.

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