Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Irish Farm Managers Association

2:55 pm

Mr. Liam Moyles:

As someone who has worked on the practical side, I believe that is a matter for debate. One could, for example, ask any of the graduates in economics from Trinity College how much knowledge they have of the areas Mr. Quigley mentioned. We should have that debate elsewhere, however. Leaving that aside, we need to go one step further with students to ensure they reach the Food Harvest 2020 targets, run their farms as businesses and create opportunities to enable them to carve out a niche for themselves. We must go further and become the Kilkenny of the farming world.