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

3:35 pm

Dr. Kevin Smyth:

Different species of animals are suited to different areas of commonage, as the Deputy knows. It could be cattle, ponies or sheep; it is down to the individual commonage plan. Generally, it is sheep, but it can be other species also. As the Deputy knows, all these livestock-----