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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