Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (Resumed)
Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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Looking through our guests' statements, they also believe that the GLAS grant aid scheme should be extended to all farmers to allow them use the low-emission slurry spreading, LESS, system that is operated by the Forestry Contractors of Ireland, FCI. That would cost the Government less and would result in less slurry being spread. Have our guests analysed how much less it would cost the Government and how much less slurry would be spread?