Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion

3:30 pm

Mr. Gerard Murphy:

In many cases that is 15 or 20 years off. Perhaps it is something we will do. I am not precluding it as an option and as part of working with our partners in the future.

On the establishment grants, Deputy Fitzmaurice is correct that for the farm partnerships we received about €33 million in grants. However, most of that - €30 million - went to contractors for direct planting.