Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

All those initiatives are very important. I am glad the Minister of State mentioned mental health as it is something that particularly deserves attention and focus. It is a very worthy effort and expenditure that the Department is embarking on in that area because it is critically important.

In the past, I remember television was a medium used for farm safety promotions and various other initiatives. Is that something that could again be looked at? With social media, there are ways to target your audience in a very specific way, but television is a catch-all. We know that many people who are not farmers visit farms. Children on their holidays, for example, would be in close proximity to farms or using roads that are shared with farm machinery, etc. There is scope for a broader, blanket farm safety and agricultural safety awareness campaign in future. Perhaps it might be considered.

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