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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Are they immune from penalty? I think we need clarity on this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: But if-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Sorry-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I know. If the auditors win, will the Department continue to refuse to penalise them for taking this? A simple "Yes" or "No" will suffice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Great.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is clear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I think Mr. Smyth answered the question in the affirmative but I wish it to be absolutely clear. This is a particular problem with hill land. The Department has completed and issued its Bing map. It has taken out the rock and the scrub. Allowing that there is no significant change in the land - allowing that the Department did that from the sky and allowing an agricultural officer was to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The negative side is the worry because a positive change means the farmer just has more land but does not get paid for it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: When it is negative he gets penalised if it is 3%. Here is my question. The Department does the map and sends out a reference area. It decides that a certain area of heather is grand and it measures 20 hectares. Then the inspector comes out and decides that it is marginally too high and too woody and he takes it out. The farmer winds up with a 20% error rate and that is the end of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I have one question about maps that was not answered. The reference area is now the red-lined areas. Where there were percentage deductions the percentage deduction has now changed. Will the farmers get new reference areas before the closing date for applications? For example, where it was 80% the last time, the farmer could put in 20% and now it is 0%. Where it was 60% it is still 60%...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Mr. Evans misunderstands my question. The left-hand side of the map features red-lined areas of exclusion and the headings "Gross Area", "Claimed Area" and "Reference Area", as well as boxes X01, X02, X03, X04, X05, X06 and so forth. Applicants can then tick off a percentage such as 20% or 30% of a particular area on the map, which would reduce eligibility in the relevant area to 80% or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a simple matter of recalibrating the programme that generates the maps in areas of 5%. This recalibration would involve having the full area entered where the area in question is 5%, entering 0% where the area in question is 80% and so forth. This process of recalibrating the computer programme would allow a corrected map of reference areas to be re-issued, as per the Bing system and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The problem arises in respect of mountainous areas. If a farmer has a green field on which he does not do anything for one year, it will go wild with thistles and so forth. This is clearly a case of neglect. Where an area of a mountain is not grazed, however, the reason is sheep selection. In other words, farmers let sheep out on a mountain and they choose where to graze, unlike in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: In respect of my understanding of an SAC, it was slightly different in the commonage areas where there were commonage framework plans. Other than that, in an SAC a person was given a list of notifiable actions in order that if he or she wanted to dig in a quarry, he or she had to get permission. In most cases, it did not impose any farming regime. The list indicates that if a person wants...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That was because if a person wanted to drain land, he or she had to get permission and if he or she was refused, he or she could not drain it. In most cases a person was not refused permission to do anything. It was indicated he or she had to notify the Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, if he or she wanted to do any of these things, including draining. If the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Are natural heritage areas, NHAs, included or excluded?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If a person's land was ineligible because he or she had to comply with the rules applying to an NHA and a commonage framework plan, it cannot be included.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That seems a little unfair. Will the Department look at that issue also?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I wonder about the logic behind it. It is about the love of nature and farming and they then start to cut the ribbons as soon as a person does it. I do not get the Europeans; I do not understand their logic. They come and drool over the mountains, but they do not want to pay a few bob for them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Good.