Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I understand that, but these are unique assets.

Such assets sequester carbon and need to be managed. If the land is not leased and is left fallow, there will be an issue. Active farming of the land and the maintenance of biodiversity and so on that farming communities do are important. The point of the incentives some years ago to promote leasing and land mobility was to make the farm an equitable business. In consideration of the leased land as an asset, and for the purposes of calculation, it almost undoes the good of the previous policy objective.