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
Ms Kate Carmody:
I will start with the Deputy's second question. We are a co-operative with 262 shareholders. All we need is the investment and grant aid to get going. We have done a lot of research. I am a member of a working group at European level where we know the products are all being made in Europe. I have seen some of them in Holland and so on. We do not need to reinvent the wheel.
To go back to the issue of peaty ground, there is a lot of drained peatland where I am in north Kerry that, it could be said, created Kerry Co-op.
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