Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 27 January 2021
885. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the CAP payments that would be paid to farmers, by county, in tabular form, if a cap on payments of €50,000, €60,000 or €70,000 was applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3725/21]
View answerThe draft proposals for the new CAP include a number of measures which concern redistribution of direct payments, including:
- an overall cap of €100,000;
- degressive reduction of payments above €60,000, allowing a maximum payment of €80,250;
- a complementary redistributive income support scheme, and
- the convergence of payments towards a minimum of 75% of the average payment per hectare nationally.
These measures, and others under the direct payments ceiling, are inextricably linked to each other. This means that each time one of the elements is changed, each of the other elements also must change. The new CAP regulations remain under discussion at present and therefore, these elements are still changing.
My Department has carried out preliminary modelling exercises, including a review of the implications of capping of payments, the results of which have been made available online and a copy is attached to this reply. However, any analysis only remains current until one of the elements changes. This state-of-flux is likely to continue until the regulations are fully developed.
