Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 9 March 2017
294. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is any restriction on participants in GLAS 3 getting payments for commonage areas; if so, the detail of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12666/17]
View answerThe initial GLAS commonage conditions for tranche 1 and tranche 2 restricted eligibility to shareholders who declared commonage in 2014 and my Department revised this provision for GLAS 3 applications to include commonage shares declared in 2015 irrespective of whether declared previously or not. New entrants to farming in 2016 who declared commonage in their first BPS application in 2016 are also eligible.
Each shareholder must declare the commonage annually on their Basic Payment Scheme application and must engage with the commonage management plan (CMP) process. Where a farmer has shares in more than one commonage he/she must subscribe to the CMP on all commonages for which a plan is prepared.
