Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
9:00 am
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
We have participated in campaigns but our contribution in recent years, from a financial perspective, has mainly been in the context of on-farm investment, whereby we provide various pieces of equipment, including lairage equipment, that make farms safer places in which to work. However, the numbers are going in the wrong direction again. As a collective, including the industry, farming bodies and all stakeholders, we must do much more and as a Department, we must reflect on how we deliver on that.
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