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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: 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: If land is not deemed ineligible, or the ineligibility has not been caused by the restriction, what is the problem?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: A farmer with an SAC or Natura site is subject to a management plan by definition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: While we did not have commonage framework plans in some parts of Wicklow, there are Natura and SAC sites that have restricted activities imposed on them by virtue of the fact that an SAC exists on the property. This applies mainly to national park land but also to private land. If the area deemed to be ineligible was or is part of an SAC, as determined in 2008, I presume the payment to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: On Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice's point about how a person could not drain land and how the lack of drainage caused land to become ineligible, one could not drain land, regardless of whether there was a plan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: The land has been drained and turned into grassland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: Were the actions taken for it to become green fertile land notifiable actions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: It is part of the one area. Will Dr. Smyth clarify the point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: No. The other question from Deputy Noel Harrington concerned the penalty arrangements. A total of 33,000 parcels of land were subject to inspection and there were 10,000 appeals. Some people have already agreed to the penalty arrangements. The Deputy more or less asked whether the criteria had changed in such a way as to materially affect the determinations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: As Mr. O'Shea was expected to comment, I presume he had something to say.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Andrew Doyle: That is the point we are trying to raise. There is a gross and a net area, but there may be some land in between that can be added in the case of the GLAS scheme. The same applies in the case of Deputy Tom Barry's area in respect of ecological focus areas, EFAs. There may be orchards that are excluded from the reference area for land usage. Could they reasonably be added as part of an EFA?