Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 20 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed)
3:30 pm
Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Food Wise 2025 was an initiative of the industry. It was all-encompassing, including the farm organisations, processors, producers and all the rest. Everybody came together and produced that. I mentioned the point before at different meetings about looking at it again. Having said that, from a dairy point of view, a target was a 50% increase in production. We are probably well down that road already without having a huge increase in numbers, as I mentioned a few minutes ago. Much can be achieved more efficiently without having to go down the road of a huge increase in numbers.
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