Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine
3:10 pm
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The way GLAS works is that one gets paid for certain actions.
It is not like REPS - people are paid for doing specific things on the farm. If people are sharing land, they must get buy-in for the actions from at least 50% of the people farming the land. It would be a nonsense if we were paying 10% of people in a commonage when everyone else had to contribute as well.