Common Agricultural Policy
Dail Éireann — 2021-12-09
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Aindrias Moynihan (FF), Cork North-West

I want to focus back in on the point about those who are not just dealing with their own farm but taking in a commonage or land along a body of water, for example. It is going to give much more meaningful environmental benefit if there is a larger number of people involved and the action is being taken across a wider area. There are situations where it may be on commonage or the landowner may not be interested in engaging. Not only are we losing the environmental benefit in that case but also the other farmers may not be able to go in on that scheme. That is the one that pays better but they will end up having to be on the individual action scheme. If there was some way of ensuring that people who wanted to get on that wider area scheme with a large number of participants, they would be able to engage and would not be locked out because of somebody not wanting or being unable to participate.

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Sitting date: 2021-12-09