Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed)
Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I welcome the witnesses. My first question is for Mr. Lumley. I have a few quick, short questions for him. He talked about reclamation and draining soils. Some 44,000 farmers in Ireland make their living, be it sheep or suckler farming with some of them dairy farming in the likes of Listowel and places like that, from peaty soils that have been drained, for which the EU actually gave them grants years ago. That is how they make their living. It was said that should not be allowed. How are they going to make a living if they go on the system the witnesses are talking about?
No comments