Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion

Ms Niamh Brennan:

If all of the actions were implemented in the morning, there would be some scope for increases. At the moment, though, we are looking to sustain what we have. That is our bottom line. We are looking to keep our current growers in production. We are long way away from expanding our sector. If in the morning we had research, alternatives and a correctly operating food chain that took input prices into consideration, we might be able to expand. In the next few years, however, we are just concerned with maintaining the sector.