Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 July 2024

Public Accounts Committee

2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Is the scale of those applications in terms of the number of hectares increasing? Mr. Savage will know that a lot of the grants that were given were for very small parcels of land. They might have been provided for ten acres or whatever. It is good that that happened, but do they tend to be of a larger scale now? Are we planting the trees? That is what I am worried about? For the money we are putting in?