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

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I put it to Mr. Delany that under de minimisaid, grants of more than €200,000 per year were not possible, off the top of my head. With no de minimisaid, it is now open to landowners to draw down whatever money they want for 15 years, which suits the big corporations. Am I correct that, up to now, in the three years of de minimisaid, if you drew down X amount from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, there was a certain threshold, which was the most you could draw down? There is none of that now. Is that correct?

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