Women’s farm unit ‘not recommended’

THE setting up of a special unit in the Department of Agriculture and Food to promote the interests of farm women was not on the recommendations of an advisory group.

Minister Joe Walsh revealed this when responding to a Dáil question by Labour Party spokesperson Dr Mary Upton TD who asked if he would set up a permanent division in his department for that purpose.

The chairwoman of IFA Farm Family Committee Mary McGrea called for the special unit when she addressed the first national IFA conference on women in agriculture at Croke Park earlier this month.