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

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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That was the excuse given for forcing people with bogland in NHAs to stop cutting turf. When we wanted to take this out, there was a European Court of Justice ruling that we could not do it under national legislation as European legislation did not permit it. European legislation cannot stop us doing something while also stating a person will not be paid. It is not fair.