Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Teagasc Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Professor Gerry Boyle:

Yes. I do not have data on the area utilised for agriculture because there is a lot of forest on those lands around the country. We have six research sites. We farm 175 ha that we own at Moorepark, for example. We also have leased land, which I am not counting in that total. The 1,800 ha is owned land.