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| | IFA Rural Development Committee Chairman Tom Turley said that the proposed Agri-Environment Options Scheme is unworkable unless major changes are made to the specifications used to implement the scheme. “Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith must introduce flexibilities that allow the AEOS to be meaningful for the vast majority of the 10,000 farmers who finish their REPS 3 contracts before the mid-May Single Farm Payment application date.” |
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| | The Chairman of the IFA Flood Project Team Michael Silke appeared before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment to set out the measures needed to avoid the devastation caused by the extensive flooding across the country last November. |
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|  | At a meeting in Brussels today, the leader of the IFA Flood Project Team Michael Silke raised serious concerns about the use of EU environmental legislation to put a stop to essential river maintenance work. |
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| | IFA President John Bryan said that he would be contacting the Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith immediately to highlight some serious shortcomings that need to be addressed in the new Agri-Environmental Scheme to replace REPS, which the Department of Agriculture is proposing. |
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|  | IFA President John Bryan has described this week’s meeting in Brussels with the EU Commissioner for Research and Innovation Maire Geoghegan Quinn as constructive. |
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