Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed)

3:15 pm

Photo of Andrew DoyleAndrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The point is that since the audits have come in with regard to ruling out land that is ineligible, it has become much more profound, with more forensic mapping. It does not have to be uplands or commonages. There are cases, as I am sure Mr. Evans is aware, all over the place, on what would be semi-marginal lands. A photograph shows a tuft of rushes that looks like trees from the air and somebody has to go out and inspect it. That may be an unusual case but there is that level of inspection.

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