Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are discussing maximising land use and how we farm on land that has a high environmental value.

What we are talking about in Pillar 2 is rewarding the public good, in so far as we farm the land in an environmentally friendly way and are doing something to offset, within the national context perhaps, more intensive farming which has greater challenges to meet some of the other greening targets within the European Union.