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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Mr. Monaghan might clarify an aspect of the new scheme that was announced or revised in May. Is it the case that annex 5, which determines the activities in respect of which payment can or cannot be draw down, is really the problem?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: With the exception of minimum tillage and catch crops.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I should also mention arable grass margins, which-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Hedgerows and everything else are different.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: With the exception of catch crops and minimum tillage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Obviously, this is only in place since May. During the three years in question, did negotiations or discussions take place between the witnesses and the officials in the Department and the Minister's office?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: What was the reason for this level of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: This was over five years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Farmers can still get the basic payment scheme on top of this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I believe it was for the first 20 hectares.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: It is something we could get from the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: There is probably enough in the allocated fund.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I come from a similar area with hills in the east. The big thing will be farming practices. Dipping and dosing of sheep are seen as essential for keeping them on a hill, but that would have to end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: With what though?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: However, certain dips are not allowed. With the organophosphorus ones farmers have to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: In a land use policy we prepared, we argued that all the land that is farmed traditionally should be used as a countermeasure for all the intensive land because of carbon capture and sequestration, which is linked to what Mr. Monaghan is saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: All vegetables at the moment-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Austria.