Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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1670. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the costs associated with running and facilitating the various round table forums in each sector including beef, dairy, tillage and so on, in tabular form. [28441/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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In 2017, I facilitated meetings of roundtable forums for the beef, dairy and tillage sectors. These forums have built on the success of the Beef Roundtable which had its first meeting in April 2014.

Roundtable forums bring together all stakeholders for constructive discussion on how the various sectors in Irish agriculture can develop and meet challenges as they arise, with the overall aim of realising the objectives laid down for them in Food Wise 2025.

Costs are kept to a minimum including holding meetings in-house wherever possible. The total cost to date is €3,858.13 – the breakdown per sector reflects the number of meetings per sector held to date.

The costs of the roundtable meetings that have been held thus far are as follows: