Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If Deputy McNamara has any more ideas about what we can implement, the Ministers of State, Senator Hackett and Deputy Heydon, and I are very open to them. We want to change things to see more women coming into farming. We want to support it. This is why we are pushing the barriers out, getting the message out there strongly, and actually doing it in terms of supports. If there is anything else we can do, we will certainly look at that and be very open to it.

I wish to update the Deputy on the appointment of a former Tánaiste and Minister for agriculture, Mary Coughlan, who was the first Minister for agriculture in the country, as chair of the dialogue on women in agriculture.

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