Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 April 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion
Mr. Noel Meehan:
Yes. There are various levels of requirement in the new environment architecture that is there. There are eco-schemes, agri-environment climate measures, AECMs, co-operation projects, European innovation projects, EIPs, and so forth. This will fall outside all of those. It is basically to try to mop up farmers who fall outside of those, and there will be a significant cohort of farmers who will fall outside them. Obviously, environmental schemes do not suit everybody and many of the co-operation projects are focused on the more peripheral western seaboard area. It is to try to catch those other farmers.
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