Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 January 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Farm Inspections: Health and Safety Authority
10:00 am
Mr. Martin O'Halloran:
Moving on to Deputy Pat Deering's questions, we certainly agree and our entire thrust is culture change. We want to continue education on the farm. Perhaps I did not clarify this, but the online training programme is primarily a resource for teachers in primary schools. However, we believe the on-farm education programme will be empowered and enabled through the discussion groups because they will be farm-centric. Consequently, we certainly take on board the Deputy's point and do not disagree with his observations.
As regards farm visits, I will ask my colleague, Mr. Higgisson, to outline the process involved, how farms are selected and, when an inspector calls and leaves, the nature of that interaction.
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