Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised)
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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On programme C, the allocation to Teagasc has been more or less static for the past number of years. Considering the reliance which so many sectors have on Teagasc-led research, is the Minister satisfied that its budget is sufficient to do all that we have been asking it to do? In every sector we discuss at this committee, we refer to the need to Teagasc to carry out some work. Is its budget sufficient to allow it to do everything that is required of it? Obviously there are additional pressures on the organisation arising from the ongoing climate action debates.