Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Noel Feeney:

On the Deputy's first question, yes, we are dealing with more than 55,000 farmers, which means a huge number of farms. Over the years, our membership base has spread all over the country. We are proud of the fact that we give a very good, efficient and quick service to these farmers. That has been shown in recent years by the vast number of schemes that have been put through. We have got farmers and their families over the line regarding applications and so on.

ACA advisers are, as Senator Lombard mentioned, boots on the ground. We have boots on the ground and we find it very important to go to the farm families and advise them at their desks, whether that is the farmer, the farmer's spouse or young successors coming along. That is where we find we have an edge. We are doing a lot of work with farm families. In turn, the trust between the ACA adviser has built up over many years. I will ask Mr. Canning to address the TAMS issue.

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