Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 331: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the figures for the moneys allocated to fund farm safety awareness campaigns from 1997 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23492/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Farm safety awareness campaigns are not funded by my Department. Funding for the Health and Safety Authority, HSA — the State agency with responsibility for the administration and enforcement of health and safety at work — is from the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment, the parent Department of that authority.

My Department is a member of the farm safety partnership committee and will be represented at the National Seminar on Occupational Health and Safety in Agriculture, which has been organised in association with the committee, next month. This seminar is a further example of the proactive approach of the HSA to farm safety, an approach which I will continue to support, as I did most recently when I launched the farm safety week.