Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land
2:00 pm
Mr. Liam O'Keeffe:
Yes. The threat response plan is assessing whether forestry, wind turbines or intensive farming caused the decline. The plan is ongoing and seems to be a long way from finishing or producing results.
On the overall cost of the compensation package, the IFDL does not have enough information to accurately estimate compensation. We reckon, for example, that 60,000 ha should lead to €22 million. Again, we do not have an accurate figure but we reckon that somewhere around €15 million is being paid under the GLAS scheme to farmers with designated land. Therefore, we think the compensation package will amount to between €7 million and €10 million. We do not have access to enough information to give a more accurate estimate.
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