Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
4:45 pm
Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
We also need to define "active". I would go back to the person who keeps the maps and also the person who is striving to become operative. The last thing we want to see is a situation in which, if a young farmer gets a 25% top-up - I am only talking about young farmers - it would get transferred to the landowner. That is what I mean by "active". I do not mean excluding airports or multinational companies; I am talking about being active in terms of the land and activity, as opposed to an active farmer. I might be talking in riddles but Mr. Moran knows what I am trying to say.
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