Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme

Mr. Conor Geraghty:

It is not easy enough. When we looked at the first unveiling of the prototype - it was only a prototype, to be fair, and I am sure it is improving all the time - it took more than 50 clicks to do a standard prescription, which was way too long. We looked at the commercial software we were using and we went to the people involved. They said they could interact with NVPS and that we would not have to change or get rid of our systems. We now believe that if practices are in any way busy, that is the road they will have to go down. They will have to get third party commercial software to be able to do this quickly and easily.