Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
5:30 pm
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
-----is a scheme with high environmental ambition. I know the committee is going to talk about it again in the next session but it is a very good scheme. It is complicated, and it came at a time when we had to roll out an entirely new set of schemes. These things are not done in isolation. There is a resource in the Department for dealing with IT issues. We are trying to manage these things. I would love to be the first Secretary General in history who was able to say that there was no disruption between one CAP and another, but I am not that guy. I wish I was, but these things are difficult. I agree that one form of simplification the next time around might be to do the least possible change.