Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 26 May 2016
235. Deputy Joe Carey asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the scenario whereby a contract issued in October 2016 to a landowner under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme could be transferred to a lessee should the lands associated with the contract be subsequently leased out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12457/16]
Amharc ar fhreagraGLAS is a voluntary Scheme where participants elect to carry out specific environmental commitments and in order for a verifiable benefit to be achieved the governing regulations require that those commitments must be delivered for a minimum of five years. Accordingly all lands on which GLAS commitments are delivered, must be lands held by approved participants for the duration of the GLAS contract. The GLAS Scheme Terms and Conditions indicate that GLAS contracts are non-transferable except in the case of certified serious illness, the transfer of the entire holding subject to prior approval of the Department or the death of the participant.
