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 farmer retirement scheme that was in place. To me, it was one of the best schemes to entice older farmers to hand over their farms to their children and so on. Could it be looked at again in the future? I know it comes down to funding but it was a very good scheme and it was taken up and used. It brought a lot of young farmers into the system. Could it be looked at again or is cost-preventative?
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