Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion

Photo of Martin BrowneMartin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our guests. The opening statement of Hemp Federation Ireland forecasts that developing a hemp industry in Ireland will have an immediate and lasting environmental impact and that an indigenous hemp industry has the potential to create 80,000 rural jobs, according to a report from Teagasc. What is that based on? What kind of jobs are entailed within that?

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