Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
2:00 am
Ms Sinéad McPhillips:
I thank the Deputy for the questions. In many of those cases, these are optional measures for member states. Each member state has its CAP strategic plan, CSP, and has chosen from the toolbox of CAP measures. Some of the changes will allow them to do something slightly different within that toolbox. Some member states organise organic payments on a livestock unit basis. We do not. Instead, we do it on a per hectare basis. There will be some change options in that regard. There will be some compulsory changes and some optional changes. There are also some changes to measures that we in Ireland do not implement. Overall, the impact will be fairly modest.