Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants

9:00 am

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is something on which I have received representations and I felt it was important to mention it today.

I have an observation on the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP. Food was 30% of household spending in the 1970s. That figure is now between 10% and 15%. Some farmers would argue that we are moving towards an economy based on cheap mass-produced food. What is the Department doing to mitigate that narrative? Is it doing anything?

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