Payments under Burren Programme commence this week

The Burren Limestone, Co Clare. File picture.

The value of habitat and landscape improvements has delivered €32.8m since 2010 making the Burren Programme an efficient and effective model for delivering environmental improvements, Minister of State in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett has stated.

The Programme - a national and European Union co-funded scheme under the 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme - was assessed recently by Aecom Ltd under its environmental, economic and social impacts and the Minister pointed to its benefits as payments under the Programme commence this week for participating farmers.