Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food
Social Farming: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Joseph McCrohan:
Kerry Social Farming gets a small amount of funding from Healthy Kerry, and it also gets funding locally in Kerry. It gets some funding from Kerry Education and Training Board for the training elements of our programme. All the money we get from the Department of agriculture is spent on paying facilitators to work with farmers. All the other support comes from where it should: the other Departments. There is a lot of work locally on the ground, but our job is to pull all the strings together. The core funding is from the Department of agriculture. We are after everybody for money.