Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme

Mr. John Keane:

No. We did not avail of it. From our side of things, Mr Hanrahan mentioned our succession scheme. We have that proposed in it. From a single farm payment aspect, we acknowledge that the national reserve and the young farmers scheme has been renewed under the next CAP. It has been standard practice for that to be retained and the rates are the same. However, obviously the averaging of basic payments is going to have an impact on the payment paid to young farmers, because the payments in the national average will have an impact on that too. From a grants point of view, I take the point on board that it might be a higher level than what we had to do ten years ago, when the Deputy was doing the green certificate.