Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Rural Development Plan 2014-2020: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

3:25 pm

Photo of Seán KyneSeán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, but if maps or forms will be issued next March for submission in May under the single payment scheme and commonage has been reduced by 50% to 70% in that year, what impact will that have on future forage availability and on the habitat and birds directives? The Department will have another section of the Commission down on top of us when the solution is to maintain the forage areas as they are but force the farmers in those cases to up the stocking level.

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