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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: Even B, at 20%, would have been gone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: If the parcel was smaller, 100% of the field would be gone. It works both ways.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: Sorry, there are other people in this room as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: I will tolerate no more interjections until this presentation is finished. The Deputy can smirk away, if he likes. I have given him as much tolerance as I can.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: It is quite clear to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: I am a farmer and I think I understand it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: We will get there. The Deputy will get his chance after he asks his questions. I am making the point that I understand it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: That is fair enough. The Deputy will get his chance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: I thank Dr. Smyth and Dr. Grogan. Nearly every member wants to speak so I ask everyone to take five minutes initially so that we all get a chance to ask questions. There are nine members so it will take 45 minutes for the first round of questions if everyone takes their allotted time. We will start with Deputy Ó Cuív.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: I have allowed 40 minutes of questions. I thank the members for adhering to my request for conciseness. Who wants to open up the responses? It seems that burning has come up frequently.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: Deputy Ferris had a particular query about whether the land will be excluded if the burning was authorised and all the rest of it. I might make some comments about that at the end. The issue of the red line was also raised. How does land that might have had a small red line around it stand now? Under the new regime, that could come back into eligibility. Questions were also asked about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: Very few comments were made, actually.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: I ask Deputy Ó Cuív to show some respect to the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: I know that Deputy Barry and perhaps others have questions on maps. If we do it this way, each of the officials who deals with a specific section will be able to answer the questions of relevance to him. Deputies Barry and Kyne have indicated that they would like to come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: To be helpful, as Deputy Fitzmaurice said, there is a lot of good land about which this issue does not arise. The Deputy is talking about marginal land. It goes back to the point made earlier that the Department will brief all the advisory services and, I presume, its own inspectors. With regard to the applications, 90% of the time they will be submitted with the assistance of a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: We are getting into a very technical discussion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: Does Dr. Grogan have something else to say regarding inspections?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: Regarding the 2008 reference, there were some questions, particularly from Deputy McNamara on the wording of the directive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: This is not a court of law.