Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) with UFA and IFA
4:15 pm
Mr. John Bryan:
Then they are farming. The Commission does not state that a farmer must farm every square inch of land, whether that land is in Achill or Kilkenny. When my land maps were returned to me various pieces of land had been removed because the Commission deemed that land was not being farmed. Land which is being farmed and kept in good agricultural condition is deemed eligible. Whether a commonage or not, if the Commission deems land is not being farmed it is taken out. That has happened a great deal this year.