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
Mr. Enda Monaghan:
Yes, but that was in conversion. It was €340 for the first 20 hectares and €225 for the next one and then €115, which is much less than €170. We were doing it on 55 hectares because that is what the original one was. They came in across the board with €170 for everything. That could still be put back to 50 hectares. If a farmer with 60 hectares is getting €170 and ten hectares are taken off him but he is given twice as much for the first ten hectares, he will still get the same amount of money, but it will help the smaller lad survive.
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