Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Organic Sector: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
2:00 pm
Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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A number of questions have been asked. On the double payment, I recall the organic representative body identifying that the way the different measures are grouped seemed to restrict farmers who were unable to do something else in a group where there was overlap. I cannot recall the individual measures but the group said farmers might have been able to do things that were complementary. I would like clarification on whether such a rule amounted to double payment. I understand fencing and hedging was one such category.