Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Dermot Callaghan:
That project is in proposal stage. Teagasc is meeting the stakeholders, namely, Bord Bia and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. There are different types of data sets. There are the census-type data that are required for the sector, input price inflation-type data and cost and returns data, which are very sensitive, as Professor O'Mara said. There is a range of data types and a needs analysis is being carried out to find out what we need to collect and how we might collect it. That is ongoing.