Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
Dr. Barry O'Reilly:
Right throughout the consultation process, the view from the organic sector was very much that it did not want NGT category 1 plants. Probably one of the main reasons for that is NGT category 1 plants are not in keeping with a public perception of what people expect from organic food. That is probably one of the main reasons but it is something the organic sector itself does not want. There are two sides to that argument as well.