Agriculture Schemes
Dail Éireann — 2023-07-13
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Éamon Ó Cuív (FF), Galway West

If a huge number of farmers are not participating because they are put off by the conditions of the scheme and the bureaucracy involved, and especially those farmers with small herds on poorer land who sell the cattle younger and who are not participating because of the Bord Bia condition, are we not losing and throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Could they not have a modified scheme and then allow the bigger herd owners to meet the Bord Bia condition because they are more likely to be finishing the cattle?

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Sitting date: 2023-07-13