Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants

9:00 am

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

Absolutely.

We cannot produce everything here. There is a very dynamic demand among consumers for all sorts of products that we cannot produce in Ireland. That is another reality. We export 90% of our beef. We could not consume that 90% here-----