Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Priorities of Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Discussion

5:00 pm

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

That will happen next year. We are dependent on the Commission clearing it. It is in the second amendment to the rural development programme, RDP, that I mentioned and the Commission has to agree it. We have submitted a specific very flexible proposal. Farmers get to choose from several options exactly what welfare measure they take. I cannot guarantee that the Commission will agree to it precisely as proposed. We are reasonably optimistic that it will agree to it but it usually wants to make its own input. We are aiming to get that cleared by the end of the year but that is very much at the discretion of the Commission. We will run it in the next calendar year.

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