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:

In a way, the Chair is asking me a policy question but it is a relevant consideration. Some young farmers may wish to get into the sector. There are impediments such as the price of land and other considerations and some older farmers are reluctant to hand over their farms. A policy response may need to address more than one of those issues but I point out that there is one pot of money and it is not easy to make decisions on the distribution and effective use of that money. The Chair raised a legitimate question.

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