Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector
9:00 am
Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I want to ask about the forgotten farmers, as they are known. I have been lobbied by several people who are not in the system at all who got into farming late and did not qualify because of age and had not the qualifications in respect of land at the time. They are always trying to make the case that they are forgotten about. They call themselves the forgotten farmers. Is there anything in the pipeline for them? I have raised this with the Minister on several occasions. Is there anything in the pipeline for those forgotten farmers, as they call themselves?
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