Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion
Mr. Barry Delany:
Sorry to cut across the Minister of State. At the moment, as regards what has been reported, there is still the planting that happened with de minimisaid. Those payments are still being processed. Another 600 ha have yet to be applied. In total under the de minimisaid scheme, which is in addition to the ones planted under the old programme, about 1,950 ha were approved. The landowners we mentioned had valid licences and decided to come in through the de minimisaid scheme, the new programme, and get the new payments at the old environmental-----
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