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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: Is Mr. Monaghan saying a farmer with fewer than 45 acres but who is in GLAS is already getting €370? Is that per hectare or per acre?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: If any of these questions was answered before I came in, I will read the transcript. I understand the time pressure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: The first point is the anomaly in respect of GLAS payments, soil types and hen harrier payments. The thinking on one payment may be contradicting the thinking on the other. If the question on this has been answered already, I will look at the transcript.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: If Mr. Monaghan is saying 1,100 farmers will be looked after with €25 million, is he saying that is 25%-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: So a rate of 100% would mean roughly €100 million for 4,000 farmers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: I am just trying to get my head around the figures.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: So it is a case of 80:20.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: My third question concerns the score system. Mr. Monaghan said the system of scoring between one and ten relates to the hen harrier payment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: The habitat will be related to the matter of the hen harrier because the hen harrier obviously cannot live without the habitat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: They are connected. With regard to the scoring system, Mr. Monaghan said there are subjective criteria for each field. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: So there could be different habitat types in different fields?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: Is the decision made per field or per area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: So it is per field.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: Could there be two separate habitats in one field?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: With regard to scoring from one to ten, Mr. Monaghan said he would obviously try to advise the farmer on how to achieve a score of eight or nine if he or she is currently achieving a six or seven. I understand the objectivity of the system and the intentions behind it. For the farmer, however, it is a matter of the amount of work involved to achieve an eight or nine. The cost involved in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: Considering the amount of labour, time and effort involved, is trying to achieve a score of six, seven or eight a sustainable way of farming from a lifestyle perspective and, more important, an economic perspective? I understand the rationale behind what Mr. Monaghan is saying but I am considering the practicalities. If I milk eight cows and milk is at 30 cent per litre, I know the return I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: I understand the point but my point is that most of the fields in west Limerick are not suitable for silage, if I am not mistaken.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: I take that on board but the other side of the debate is to find the middle ground and the sustainability. What has been articulated today is that they are struggling to find that middle ground. I come to this from the outside but from my understanding the goalposts seem to have shifted. Mr. Monaghan can correct me if I am wrong. Maybe that is because the habitats are shifting. They do...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: I welcome the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
Tom Neville: Mr. Felzen said the Sparkassen model was regional and that it can reinvest back into a region. Bigger countries have regions with large populations so there will be more commercial advantage in the model for such countries. What way does he propose to look at the regions of Ireland and how will he determine a region? A region of Dublin would be very different from a region in rural County...