Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Jack Nolan:

You know that it is not there and if there are not animals on the farm that are suitable for the land that is in Mayo then it is an artificial creation of a holding. Before, there used to be rules around distance and so on but now it around your farming type and whether you can prove that you are farming it. For example, if someone has mountain land and they only have dairy animals, it is obvious that is not what they are actually doing. That is how it will be targeted.