Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Sheep Grassland and Single Farm Payments: Irish Farmers Association

2:15 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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As I see it, he has three options. The option that was chosen up to now was crazy. The second option is to subsume the payment in the manner that has been proposed. This would make it necessary to find another €18 million in Pillar II. I believe there is a significant built-in underspend in Pillar 2. The third option is to move the money from Pillar 1 to Pillar 2 so that it can be allocated as a grassland coupled payment under Pillar 2. Am I right to suggest that those are the three options?