Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Burning of Land: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

3:00 pm

Photo of Pat DeeringPat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I am thinking out loud, so correct me if I am off completely. Would one way of getting around this be if we had a later application date for commonage land? For example, the point was made that some of this land would be greened up again by the time June comes, or July at the latest. The application date is 15 May. If that date was extended for two months, for example, for commonage areas, would that be a possible way of getting around the issue?