Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion

Mr. Jim O'Toole:

I will start with that one. Our expenditure in the current year on organics will be in the order of €1 million. I am not sure about the categorisation of previous years but, obviously, we are doing a significant amount of work on organics at present. Just a month ago we were at BioFach, the organic fair in Germany. We had eight companies presenting there. We reckon that from that trade fair alone, €3 million worth of business will be written. I have mentioned that we have a new sector manager dedicated to that. We are spending absolutely in line with our growing output of organic and we are-----

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