Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Burning of Land: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

3:00 pm

Mr. Paul Dillon:

Yes. Every case is looked at individually in terms of how the penalty is applied. Then, as we explained, in the event we are satisfied that the applicant was not involved, we remove the administrative penalty. Then, it is simply a question of subtracting the burned land from the overall application. There is no top-up penalty or administrative penalty. That is the first point.

The second point is that all these people, if they are still dissatisfied, have the right of appeal to the agriculture appeals office and the Ombudsman.

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