Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine

9:00 am

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

It could be a reduction in the number of animals. As I understand it, the implementing regulation is before the monitoring committee today. Afterwards, we will know clearly what the regulation stipulates and we will then have some kind of a consultation with farm bodies about what to do. We will be constrained by the parameters in the regulation. A reduction in the number of animals could be a requirement but there will not be a requirement for a permanent adjustment, in case that is what people are afraid of. It will be voluntary.

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