Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food
Social Farming: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Brian Smyth:
The Leitrim Development Company has a national contract to develop the national network. It amounts to €400,000 a year from the Department of agriculture. The Kerry organisation does the job for €100,000 a year in County Kerry. We do it for €400,000 in 25 counties. We subcontract three other local development companies to help us. That is how it works. We branded it overall as Social Farming Ireland so it would be a national network. Otherwise, there would be 26 social farming networks.
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