Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 January 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Farm Inspections: Health and Safety Authority
10:00 am
Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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I wish to take up on Deputy Penrose's point. I know a gentleman in the farming community who lost his leg and subsequently approached the farming organisations and the HSA. He was willing to go to school. Sadly, he was rebuffed everywhere he went. Everyone was sending him to different places. As Deputy Penrose said, it is necessary to get someone who can talk in ordinary language when delivering a safety course. If someone goes in with highfalutin stuff, we will be going nowhere.