Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Agricultural Schemes, Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis and Compensation: Discussion
Mr. Francis Morrin:
If it is okay, I might deal with the forgotten farmers first and then move on to the young farmers’ scheme afterwards.
The proposals we heard the Minister announce at the Macra conference a couple of weeks ago in Ballykisteen are not finalised or fully developed yet. We are still working through those at the moment. What members have seen in the design so far is about identifying those people who are truly forgotten, the ones who would ordinarily have been there to receive money back when the downturn happened and to make sure that the money is concentrated on those people who did not have something to apply for then but who normally would have.