Resounding support in west Cork for legal challenge to penalties
ICSA (Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association), with the West Cork Community Alliance, is fundraising towards mounting a High Court challenge to the LPIS (Land Parcel Identification System ), in response to the Department of Agriculture cutting Single Farm Payments in West Cork and other areas of marginalised land.
At a meeting last week in Bantry attended by over 200 ICSA members and concerned farmers, there was overwhelming support to mount and fund the legal challenge against a system that farmers feel has been heavy-handed at the least, and unfair at worst.
