Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion

Mr. Jim O'Toole:

I was going to go on to say that the criteria of our sustainable dairy assurance scheme is agreed upon by a technical advisory committee, TAC. In order to have accredited quality assurance schemes, that is how they must be operated. The technical advisory committee for the sustainable dairy assurance scheme comprises the IFA, ICMSA, Teagasc, the Department, ICOS and the FSAI. We have a meeting coming up next week where we will be considering this issue. We believe it is an issue that all parties-----