Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Brexit: Discussion with Mushroom Industry

5:00 pm

Mr. Micheál McGovern:

There was one area of self-help mentioned in respect of which we can certainly take action, namely, the idea of lean thinking or lean principles. If we were fit to get an allocation in the region of €2 million to further the lean thinking that needs to be done within our sector to remove all costs, it would certainly be another major boost to our quest to ensure the sector is sufficiently robust to withstand any other further crisis that may arise. That is one measure we would appreciate the committee taking into account as well.