Oliver Moore: Frustration at low response to report

The Organic Farmers Representative Body has expressed concerns over GLAS payment delays, and doubling up in both funding rules and farm inspections of for the organic sector.

“An excellent report was prepared by the previous committee — of which some of us were members — but it appears to have only reached the waste bin of the Department and got no further.”

That was the opinion which Labour deputy Willie Penrose stated at the joint Oireachtas committee on agriculture earlier this month.