Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

3:30 pm

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

If we capped at €60,000, which is an option, although we have much modelling work to do, our estimate is we would save approximately €12.5 million. There are only approximately 600 farmers involved. I do not know what impact it would have on the overall average but I would not say it has much impact. It will not skew the distribution in a major way. It would not be enough to pay for the kind of redistribution proposed here that would require front-loading and other movements of entitlements as well. These are calculations we must do and we must do much of it to consider the impact.