Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Overseas Development Aid: Teagasc

9:30 am

Photo of Brendan SmithBrendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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I thank both Professor Boyle and Dr. O'Brien for their presentation. As I said at the outset, it is gratifying to know about Teagasc's work to date, and the witnesses' commitment to increasing that work. I also recognise the fact, which I raised with the Secretary General of the Department, that the private sector and agribusiness are playing their part. We have been assured of that. I am glad that the witnesses mention Mr. Edmond Harty and his colleagues in Dairymaster as an example of those helping out-----