Oliver Moore: Andrew Doyle says organic is making progress

Agriculture Minister of State Andrew Doyle TD replies to this columnist’s questions for a second week.

It appears that the previous, underwhelming organic action plan of 2013-2015 has not been replaced . Why is this?

I cannot accept any view of the 2013 Organic Farming Action Plan as “underwhelming”. Anybody working in this field would recognise these as the key challenges facing the sector and real progress was made in tackling these over the course of the plan. We have seen a major increase in the organic sector in recent years, both in terms of producers and in terms of value.