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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

Mr. Jason Fitzgerald: Irish Farmers with Designated Lands, IFDL, is a group representing farmers in regions within Ireland affected by the designation of lands for the hen harrier special protection area, SPA. The total land area affected by this designation is 169,000 hectares which affects more than 4,400 farmers. The aim of IFDL is to restore the value of designated land to the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

...has to answer that question, one has to consider the consequences of the designation and the serious concern around it. The main concern is that farmers are not able to make an income from their lands. The other issue is that farmers cannot sell their land; it is completely worthless. Those issues have to be addressed. A viable long-term scheme has to be introduced. Certainty on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

Martin Ferris: The documentation I received from the witnesses includes a document on compensation for land owners prepared by John Dore, who is an agricultural economist and valuer. He suggests farmers would be willing to accept €698 per hectare from the National Parks and Wildlife Service for a period of 15 years as compensation for the devaluation of land as a consequence of what has happened....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

...response consultative committee and inform people of the needs of farmers in these areas. We need a long-term scheme to match the value of forestry because the majority of farmers want to farm their land. They want to plant it because it is the easiest way out. They have been told they are entitled to nothing and that is why they want forestry. We understand that a limited amount of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...system of farming in such a way as to maximise the chances of the hen harrier not only surviving but also propagating, would this be acceptable as a way forward? I do not mind how many hectares of land a farmer owns but if one of those hectares is useful to the hen harrier, then all other hectares are also useful. I do not understand the logic of paying a certain amount in respect of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

Paul Connaughton: ...much everything I wanted to say has been said already. The delegates mentioned that they were in Brussels. What response did they receive there? Deputy O'Donovan mentioned the designation of land and that it is very unlikely that it will be lifted. I would like to see it being lifted but that could be a dream that will not be realised. The concern is over the solution. Even in south...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...is designated. I have heard about this in chapter and verse for many years. It is not today or yesterday that this issue has become a problem but it is now coming to a head. To be fair, most landowners do not really have a difficulty with the designation and understand the reasons for it and the requirement for habitat protection. The latter is a given. What they have difficulty with,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for the presentation. One might say that farmers did not know where to go for four years. I have seen parts of Ireland in which farmers did not know where to go for the past 17 years because of designations. We know that down through the years farmers and nature lived hand-in-hand. Fundamental environmentalism and ridiculous legislation now mean that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

...angry about this. They have tried writing to the Bar Council and to everyone they could think of but got no response. Many of these farmers, big, small and medium, had designated 20% or 25% of their land which could be used as an insurance policy to sell or plant if they needed money to put someone through college or if a member of the family became ill or needed to go into a nursing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: The delegates are members of various farming organisations. What have they done to take up the cause on their behalf? Representative bodies should be fighting this. I am from the midlands and am familiar with callows and wetlands, which are the equivalent of the designated areas in question. I have been deeply involved with cases in this regard and fought the odd one fairly successfully....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

Andrew Doyle: As the Deputy is a TD that is not possible, but he can make a contribution nevertheless. I welcome Mr. Jason Fitzgerald, Mr. Liam O'Keeffe and Mr. Sean Kelly from the Irish Farmers with Designated Land group. This is a group which represents farmers affected by the designation of lands for the hen harrier. I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee today. I apologise for the...