Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme

Mr. John Keane:

The on-farm partnership model works relatively successfully at the moment. I have mentioned financial access and financial contribution. Over time, the young farmer must have exercised financial control, as well as ownership of the land. Those two key things have been shown within the partnership model, and a lot of them are being facilitated through the land mobility service. That shows there is the opportunity and possibility for that to deliver. That demonstrates and shows that financial control and financial contribution from a young farmer's point of view, as well as the transfer of the ownership of the land while also recognising, as the Deputy has rightly highlighted, the importance of the older farmer to the enterprise with the knowledge and experience on which you really cannot put a price. We recognise that those two things are important and can go hand in hand.

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