Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion
Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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I welcome our guests. The opening statement of Hemp Federation Ireland forecasts that developing a hemp industry in Ireland will have an immediate and lasting environmental impact and that an indigenous hemp industry has the potential to create 80,000 rural jobs, according to a report from Teagasc. What is that based on? What kind of jobs are entailed within that?