Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Farm Safety: Discussion
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I thank the Minister of State for his answer. He should perhaps talk to some of his colleagues in government about making representations on his behalf in respect of the national broadband plan. His Internet connection was fairly weak in parts, but I think I got most of it.
There seems to have been a considerable reduction in the number of farm safety inspections. Returning to the point made by Senator Paul Daly, there is a difficulty here in respect of the cross-over of Departments and their responsibilities. Those inspections have decreased year on year since 2018, by more than 10% in 2019 and by 50% in 2020, we might say understandably due to the impact of Covid-19. However, it appears that the number of inspections has again reduced this year compared to 2020. Is that something on which the Minister of State has engaged with the HSA?
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