16 Jul 2013, 14:06
You are invited to attend, or send a representative, to the launch of a report by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine on the need a Review of Commonage Lands and Framework Management Plans. The report launch takes place tomorrow morning in the A/V Room in Leinster House.
16 July 2013
This report intends to provide a timely review of the most recent recommendations from the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht on the management of the commonage lands.
Event: Launch of ‘Review of Commonage Lands and Framework Management Plans’
Location: A/V Room, Leinster House
Date: Wednesday 17 July 2013
Time: 10:45 am
Committee Chairman Andrew Doyle TD and other Members will be in attendance and available for questions.
Deputy Doyle says: “The Committee met on seven occasions to carefully consider the NPWS recommendations, which were cause of concern to many stakeholders. Representatives from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, farmers' representative bodies, Teagasc, conservation and interest groups, and individual farmers fed into the debates.
“The necessity for a common-sense approach, with farmer consultation and grounded in the wider economic realities, underpinned the Committee discussions on the issue. Consequently, we have agreed a series of recommendations which could, if implemented, positively contribute to addressing the concerns around the issues and problems regarding commonage lands identified by the stakeholders.”
Copies will be available at the launch and the report will be published online following the event.
To attend this event you must be accredited to attend briefings in Leinster House. To arrange for accreditation for the event or for further information please contact:
Paul Hand,
Communications Unit,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2
P: +3531 618 4484
M: +353 87 694 9926
View Committee Membership.