Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector

9:00 am

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

The big focus is the knowledge transfer groups. They are only beginning to kick off and we would not expect to see their impact yet. As part of the TAMS farm investment grants, a half day of safety training is required before we pay unless the person already has a green certificate which would include farm training. Those two areas are the big things we are doing. It does not appear separately as a farm safety item but they are integrated into two of our biggest and most important measures.