Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Absolutely. On whatever day we invite in a representative of the organisation in question, it would be normal practice to also invite in an official from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We will check that with the Department but it most likely it will be autumn before we will be in a position to issue that invite.

As usual, if there are any specific areas or bodies members wish to raise with respect to the work programme, they should inform the clerk to the committee. They should make sure they have reasons for bringing in organisations. We do not want to request them to come before the committee for the sake of doing so. It is important we have a clear view as to why we wish to bring a particular entity before the committee.