Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development

Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Is it correct that one has to have 5 acres when one is planting? What about when there is a group of trees in the corner of a field? Could one put 50 or 100 trees in a corner or along a ditch to bring it to an acre and get paid for that acre? It may help in climate mitigation if one wants to go down that road but also people would not be tied to having 4 acres or 5 acres. Will the Department deal with an acre?

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