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Priority must shift to beef regulator – ICSA
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May 13, 2021 5:21 pm
Farmers will be eligible for a proposed new Fair Deal scheme once a successor is in place; has been involved in the farm for three of the previous five years; and agrees to continue to farm the land for six subsequent years.
The Cabinet recently approved the the publication of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021 for family farms and businesses.
This will see the financial contributions of family-owned and operated farms, towards the cost of nursing-home fees, capped at three years.
The current situation sees farming families charged 7.5% of the value of their farm annually, for an indefinite period while their family member is in the care of a nursing home.
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher. /Donal O Leary
The Irish Cattle & Sheep Farmers Association (ICSA) has called for all farmers to be treated equally under the new CAP in terms of land eligibility and conditionality.
“[The] ICSA is extremely concerned at the ongoing failure to treat all farmers equally in terms of land eligibility and conditionality under the GAEC provisions,” president Dermot Kelleher has said.
“The introduction of GAEC 2, which covers peatlands and wetlands, is a further retrograde step, which, instead of helping the environment, is actively undermining the very farmers we expect to provide environmental public goods.”
Contradictory treatment
The ICSA has said that it is concerned that extra GAEC provisions will raise the bar for mandatory conditionality and increase the risk that peatland and wetland could be excluded altogether from CAP payments.