Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

3:30 pm

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

There is but it is quite high. It is €700 per hectare. We have a small number of farmings, some on very small holdings. When we consider redistribution like this, the outcome is not always what we think it might be. Sometimes it affects small farmers and sometimes it is bigger farmers. Sometimes it affects neighbours in the same region. There is a perception that this will involve a flow of money in one direction but when the modelling is done, there are all kinds of complex effects. That is why it is so important to do it and understand the impact. We will have much work to do on that.

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