Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector
9:00 am
Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:
Yes. That was a very small scheme at the end of the old rural development programme. It is important to acknowledge that within the targeted agricultural modernisation, TAM, scheme one of the major investment areas is animal handling facilities for farm safety purposes. In addition, in our knowledge transfer groups that we are rolling out, farm safety is a major feature of discussion. This is a cultural issue. We do put money into handling facilities and so on but that is not the core of the problem. The core is behaviour, and the knowledge transfer groups may play a significant role in that. We are embedding farm safety into their work.
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