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

3:55 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The figure is correct but it does not give average farm size. What it proves is that there is a bigger distribution of farm size in the mountain areas, in other words, farms are much smaller and the average size is smaller.