Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Bord Bia: Chairperson Designate

Mr. Larry Murrin:

Bord Bia has had a number of very successful executive education programmes but very recently these have focused on the role of environmental, social and governance issues inside the world of food production and how we have to equip our most senior people to embrace this in a food production environment. My own company has had a number of senior people through the Smurfit programme, as an example. I cannot say enough about it as a resource. It is quite unique and it is being provided by a semi-State agency. It is not at no cost. It is not being done for nothing. Bord Bia is charging for it, and it needs to. I have not gotten through the index and a hundredweight of paper yet but I doubt the cost is being fully covered by what each participant is charged. That is designed to encourage more and more participation. The more we can educate our executive teams across the stakeholder group, the stronger Ireland Inc. will be.

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