Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Six-monthly Report on Developments in EU: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

3:05 pm

Mr. Tom Moran:

That would not be the intention. Pillar 1 deals with the direct operation of the schemes. We would inform the Commission what we are doing, but it is not the same. We are not going to seek approval for a programme, as is the case with Pillar 2.