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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I will ask Mr. Wojciechowski to give us the second report please and then we will take questions. Deputy Canney will be first in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: That was very interesting. Mr. Wojciechowski gave us some startling statistics, including the point that 1,000 farmers per day are exiting farming in Europe. Europe is a big place but that is still a huge number. Another significant statistic from his presentation is that 80% of farmers are over 45 years of age. That number has not changed substantially in the last period of time either....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Is Mr. Wojciechowski saying that, rather than encouraging the young farmers, perhaps the emphasis should be on encouraging the older farmers to move out of the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I would imagine it is not the witnesses' area of expertise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I am not sure if there was a question for the witnesses. Perhaps Mr. Cardiff can make a comment, or indeed any of his delegation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: That is probably a question for the Commissioner. Everyone accepts the points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: What kind of interaction did the witnesses have with the Commission in advance of the current negotiations on the reform of the CAP? That feeds into the many of the questions we have had today. Did the recommendations of the witnesses feed into the process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Following those statements, the witnesses may want to respond in general.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: We are running tight on time. There are another couple of questioners. If Deputy McConalogue can be as brief as possible, maybe we can take two questions together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Unless Deputy Eugene Murphy or Senator Michelle Mulherin want to contribute, I ask the witnesses to sum up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I thank Mr. Cardiff and his delegation for coming here today. We have had a wide-ranging discussion on the whole CAP. One can see how important it is going into the future and important points have been made regarding generational change. I think Mr. Wojciechowski's idea about a longer-term view for agriculture and the CAP going forward should be considered, rather than the seven-year...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I welcome the witnesses, for whom I have a few brief questions. On the theme addressed by Deputy Peter Burke, namely, the selection of the authorities, it seems strange that economically vibrant counties such as Cork and Galway have been left behind, if I can phrase it in that way, in the revaluation process and placed in the blue zone. One would have expect these counties to have been a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Does it still create an inequality in terms of focusing on areas that are seen to be perhaps moving ahead at a greater pace than counties in the midlands?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: When properties are being revalued in various counties how are empty properties addressed? Parts of Carlow have one of the highest proportions of empty commercial properties in the country. At what stage is it decided that such properties are no longer rateable?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: What kind of a timespan are we talking about?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Does it create a false picture in the event there was a business in a certain commercial unit where activity had ceased six or seven years ago during the depression and it is still rateable? The Valuation Office is rating it for X amount and a local authority is in theory liable to collect the money but there is no business being carried out.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Charity shops are an issue in certain parts of the country. Are they rateable?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Do they all pay?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: If one takes St. Vincent de Paul, for example, which does a lot of very valuable work, and has charity shops in most towns around the country, all the resources it raises are for charitable purposes so it defeats the purpose to a certain extent for it to be collecting money, most likely for the local community, to do the work Departments should be doing or are not capable of doing for one...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Could Mr. O'Sullivan take me through the appeals process? Before he does that could he indicate how many applications are appealed and what is the success rate?