Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 September 2015
559. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his staff may enter lands where one or more land owners, who are not applicants of any scheme, and therefore have not signed up to the terms, have not provided him with permission to enter their lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32217/15]
View answerUnder the Direct Payment Schemes my Department’s staff only enter farmer’s property on foot of an application under one or more of these schemes in accordance with the terms and conditions of that scheme. It is a condition of all such schemes that an applicant who submits lands as part of that scheme, grants permission to the Department to inspect all the lands submitted by that applicant, with or without notice.
