Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Farm Safety: Discussion
Mr. Brian Rohan:
On behalf of Embrace FARM, I thank the committee for the invitation to give a presentation this evening. I thank members for their good comments. We were up here in the Seanad a few years ago. I think Senator Paul Daly was there. I am not sure if Senator Lombard was there. Senator Conway proposed a discussion on farm safety. I do not think much has happened with that proposal since. I would like to think that moving forward now are getting serious. We did think when Covid hit that farm accidents and fatalities would rise with children at home from school and perhaps daddy trying to home-school and farm and mammy on the front line and not there. Thankfully however, numbers have dropped but one is one too many. We need to look at that going forward. Again, on behalf of Embrace FARM, I thank the committee for the invitation.
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