Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 October 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body

10:00 am

Mr. Padraic Finnegan:

They are private companies contracted to the Department to deliver certification. The problem is they have gone way beyond what was originally intended. They have a stand for three days at the ploughing championship and the Senator can imagine what that is costing them. I do not know what else they have. They are going around doing training courses and I do not know what else, but there are a big number of them in it.

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