Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
Link to this: Individually | In context

1678. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason commonage framework plans prepared under the last CAP for the townlands of Ballyconneely, Galway, are no longer publicly accessible; and if there is any change in policy on making such plans publicly available. [18710/25]

Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Under the previous Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine (DAFM) operated the Green, Low-Carbon, Agri-Environment Scheme (GLAS). The scheme provided payments to farmers to help tackle climate change, preserve biodiversity, protect habitats and promote environmentally-friendly farming.

In GLAS, commonages which were above 10 hectares required a single Commonage Plan, known as the Commonage Management Plan (CMP), to be submitted. These plans are no-longer publicly available as they contained personal data of multiple herd owners and there are no plans, for this reason, to make them available again in the future.