Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors
12:10 pm
Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I, too, welcome Mr. Wojciechowski. I am from east Galway, an area that has seen an increase in the number of people leaving agriculture. There is also the fact that young farmers are not coming into it. That has been verified by the Western Development Commission and gives cause for concern. The number working in agriculture in the west has dropped by 41% in the past 20 years, which is a stark reminder of where the industry is going in the west. For young farmers-----
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