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:

We are where we are, and the regulation and requirements on farms now are probably a little bit ahead of where they were, so the required investment is a good bit higher. Some farms, when farmers take them over, may not be meeting the compliance standard for some storage and so forth. Obviously, if you are to receive grants you have to bring them up to be compliant, and then you can extend or build.