Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres

9:30 am

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I am looking at the figures for 2021. In 2021, €141 million given to Teagasc through its grant. It is more than that now. It gets some other funding from research programmes and things like that. It will have a role to play in the context of all these new rural development schemes.

The Deputy will know that they are more complex than previous schemes and they require advisor assistance to farmers in a way that is more significant than previously. The private sector also has a role to play.