Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Over the past while, in the context of the challenges facing the entire beef industry and agriculture sector, many farmers have been exiting the agri-environment options scheme, AEOS. They had been promised that there would be a new green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, that they could enter, but it now seems there is nowhere to go until the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, negotiations are complete, and they are a movable feast. Has the Government any plans to open an agri-environmental scheme in the short term to accommodate those who have been coming off the AEOS scheme over recent months?

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