Sorca Clarke
Question:482. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of CAP pillar 1 payments he plans to allocate to young farmers in the next CAP. [38624/21]
View answerWednesday, 14 July 2021
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Supporting young farmers, and generational renewal more generally, continues to be a priority for me and for the Department.
As the Deputy will be aware, at the June Agri-Fish Council, Agriculture Ministers accepted the provisional deal agreed between the Council Presidency and the European Parliament on 25th June.
Young farmers will continue to be supported under the next CAP. There is provision for an amount equal to at least 3% of total direct payments funding to be allocated to young farmers.
While political agreement has been reached, further work remains on certain technical details of the proposed reform. Legal texts will now be prepared by the Commission and will be presented to Member States and the European Parliament in due course for formal agreement.
There is a substantial amount of work to be carried out over the coming months to finalise Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027. The Department and I will consult extensively with farm families and stakeholders as part of this process. It is also my intention to write to the Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and the Marine to formally seek its views.
I will take the outcome of the consultation process and the views of the Oireachtas Committee into consideration before seeking the approval of Government and submitting Ireland's CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 to the Commission by the deadline of 1st January 2022.