Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

2:15 pm

Photo of Michael McNamaraMichael McNamara (Clare, Labour) | Oireachtas source

If part of what farmers are claiming for under GLAS is a hen harrier designation and a locally led agri-environment scheme comes on stream that deals with being in a hen harrier zone, can the GLAS scheme be changed so that farmers can choose alternative measures within GLAS so as to retain the full amount and get payments under the locally led agri-environment scheme on top of that?

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