Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 September 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Tillage Sector and the Nitrates Action Plan: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Joe Healy:

Glyphosate is a crucial issue at government level, and the Minister in particular needs to try to push it as hard as possible. The pace it is gathering at European level is incredible, given there is no science to back up the argument on the other side. It beggars belief. We would like this message to be passed on. Unfortunately, the French President, Mr. Macron, did not do us any favours last week in one or two of his statements. I would like the committee to pass on this message.