Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector
9:00 am
Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:
The conditions attached to the BDGP are more demanding for farmers. The purpose of the BDGP is to make a significant improvement in the level of efficiency on farms and also to impact significantly on climate change emissions from farming, an important objective for the future. The previous beef welfare scheme was different with different conditions. One would not necessarily have expected the same level of participation.