Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Coastal Farm Holdings: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

11:15 am

Mr. Paud Evans:

I have not got the calculations completely updated, but it is 44,000 hectares. Every year 4.7 million eligible hectares are declared under the single farm payment scheme and the other direct aid schemes, which 132,000 farmers claim for, and it amounts to 4.7 million hectares.