Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants

9:00 am

Photo of Bobby AylwardBobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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The EU-funded farm retirement scheme was great.

We are going back into CAP talks. I know this is a policy issue but does Mr. Gleeson support a farm retirement scheme? I have been asked by a lot of people whether we could get it back. It helped to bring young farmers into the system when older farmers retired.