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

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

On that aspect it is contained in the rules that "an organic control body, OCB, shall mean a private inspection body approved by the Minister". If I might summarise, we have had more questions and reasonable points put to us than answers. We need answers. If the members are in agreement we should invite the Minister and his officials who have been central in drawing up the new scheme. What the witnesses are saying essentially is that the Organic Trust, the certification body has----

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