Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association

2:00 am

Photo of Natasha Newsome DrennanNatasha Newsome Drennan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein)

I have one question on the training, when it is rolled out to Teagasc. When a new scheme comes on board or anything like that, training obviously has to go with it. I cannot understand why you would not get the training. What has been said with regard to the training? Is it something like, "No, you are a private company, you are not getting it"? What is the answer when it comes to that? At the end of the day, you are just passing on information to the farmer, most of whom, as the lads rightly pointed out, do not understand most of what is going on. They need somebody like an adviser, whether it is Teagasc or the witnesses, to come out and spell it out in plain English to them.

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