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
Mr. Tom Moran:
I know exactly what the Chairman is saying and I could not agree more. To refer back to the 2020 strategy, one of the difficulties for Irish agriculture is the structural rigidity and the fact that young farmers are prevented from coming in and getting a run at it. That can be tackled on a number of fronts. It can be tackled at an EU level with the 25% top-up, which we are driving hard. We can also prevent what the Chairman is talking about, if possible. We can also do what we did in the last budget to incentivise transfer through a range of mechanisms. That is something we are actively pursuing.
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