Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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1617. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of meetings of the Food Harvest 2020 high level implementation group in the period 2011 to 2016; the number of meetings planned in 2016 and over the course of the remaining four years of the strategy, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26383/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The High Level Implementation Group (HLIC) of Food Harvest 2020 had its first meeting in September 2010. There was no meeting of the Food Harvest HLIC in 2015 as the process which resulted in Food Wise 2025 took place in the first six months.

The High Level Implementation Group (HLIC) of Food Wise 2025 had its first meeting in September last year. There have been four HLIC meetings to date this year, and I plan to have two more. The next meeting is on 29 September.