IFA wants new entrants to Sheep Welfare Scheme ‘accommodated’

‘The requirement for new entrants to join the Scheme effectively within a year has resulted in them having very low reference numbers’

IFA's National Sheep Committee chairman, Sean Dennehy, says the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine must rectify the 'anomaly' that currently exists within the Sheep Welfare Scheme. File Picture.  

IFA has asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue to ensure that new entrants to the Sheep Welfare Scheme are “accommodated” after issues emerged in relation to their on-farm sheep numbers.

The organisation’s National Sheep Committee chairman, Sean Dennehy said the issue “must be resolved”.