Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion
Mr. John Spink:
I was just going to come back to that. We do not design the policies; it is the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine that does so. I am not aware of any direct input we have had in designing the ACRES schemes but we have had a lot of involvement in previous results-based payment schemes like Burren Life, Aran Life and that type of thing. We have had a lot of involvement in those and produced a lot of reports on them. I presume that is the type of information that has been built into designing the schemes as they are.