Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
3:25 pm
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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This is something which it may be necessary to link with dairy expansion. If herd sizes increase, given the lessons farmers have learned over the past 12 months, they will be obliged to plan for keeping herds indoors for longer.
That means more storage facilities and more fodder. That has investment requirements. That is in the mix in terms of TAMS.