Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 pm
Mr. Paud Evans:
No, there is no limit. The land has to have been declared as eligible in 2008 by the farmer, who classifies it as grassland moved to permanent pasture, the farmer is paid in 2008, and the resulting scrub, which is now a feature, is associated with the designation and we can continue to pay the farmer on that scrub. There is no limit to the areas they are in.