Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion
4:00 pm
Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I will tell the witness. Farmers get €200 an acre to sow spruce trees on the land.
The single farm payment is on top of that, and is guaranteed for 15 years. Does the witness not think it is an insult to farmers to have to survive on that?
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