Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Rural Development Plan 2014-2020: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

3:25 pm

Photo of Seán KyneSeán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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The issue was that if one reduces the forage area, by definition one is stating that fewer animals are allowed on the commonage, thereby exacerbating the problem of the scrubbing up and impacting on the habitats. The forage area should be left intact but a requirement should be put in place that one must have a certain number of sheep, cattle, horses or whatever and prove that one has them.