Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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885. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35567/22]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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I can confirm that, in the version of Ireland's draft CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 as submitted to the European Commission, there is a clerical error in section 4.1.2.4.6 (Decision regarding the inclusion of other species, such as shrubs and/or trees, which could be grazed and/or which produce animal feed, where grasses and other herbaceous forage are traditionally not predominant or are absent in grazing areas). The entry in this optional dialogue box should read "yes, heather species". The Department has notified the European Commission of this honest error, and it will be corrected in the final draft of Ireland's CAP Strategic Plan.