Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association

2:00 am

Mr. Tom Canning:

-----and we need to have the same conditions in which we are paid. Every time I go to a training course, I have to pay for my costs. As Mr. O'Driscoll said, our counterparts in Teagasc get six days' allowance. They are being paid to be there; they are paid regardless. Every day I spend training comes out of the cost. It is a cost to my business.