Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body
10:00 am
Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
This is an addition; I am aware of that. However, they are still not getting the average basic payment even taking that into account.
We should have a solution or a recommendation we could make to the Minister. The Department has a target of 5%. To keep people farming organically and to incentivise new people to come on board, should the Minister increase the payment for the first 20 or 30 hectares? What figure would Mr. Monaghan propose?
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