AgNav receive Best in Public Service award

AgNav was announced as the Winner of the ‘Strategic use of data to deliver efficiency in public services‘ category in the Best Public Service Awards.

Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, Jack Chambers TD, announced the winners of the Better Public Service Awards (BPSA) in the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) last week.

AgNav is a voluntary digital sustainability platform, available to farmers and advisors across Ireland, and was developed jointly by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Teagasc, the Agriculture and Food Development Authority, Bord Bia and the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF)

In his opening remarks, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said:

“Tonight’s nominees and winners represent the very best of civil service values and attributes. Looking over the various projects, it is evident to me that the willingness to support each other, share ideas and work together with a common purpose, has been central to success in delivering high quality public services.”

Pictured receiving the award were:
Michael Lynch, ICBF; Deirdre Ryan, Bord Bia; Minister of State with responsibility for Public Procurement, Digitalisation and eGovernment, Frank Feighan; Jonathan Herron, Teagasc Moorepark; Pauline Mulligan, Chief Executive of Local Government Management Agency; Bernarad Harris, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; John Mounsey, DAFM.