Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Challenges within the Organic Farming Sector: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Padraic Finnegan:

It would be but it affects us. Agriculture is one of the very few sectors that does not have that option to seek to have a recommendation made. There is the agriculture appeals office but that will not deal with the scheme. If a person does not get paid or something, he or she can go in with that, but he or she cannot go in saying that the scheme is unfair and wanting changes to be made to it. I checked that and a person cannot do that. I also tried the agriculture ombudsman. Neither of those two can actually deal with the structure of a scheme, but if an applicant is not paid or something like that they will deal with that. There is a major thing and I see no reason, considering that the Labour Court can deal with everything from migrant workers to gardaí, that agriculture cannot be included in its remit.

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