498. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will take into consideration that further to the re-allocation of moneys from pillar 1 of cap to pillar 2 for the expansion of rural development policies and considering with the introduction of 7% greening requirements on farms, if he will introduce a series of top up payments to smaller family farms that are hit hardest by these new measures and that by giving an extra payment to farmers on smaller holdings with lower payments will be contributing to the rural development and sustainability in rural areas by not allowing rural depopulation and the wipe-out of smaller family farms. [15060/13]

Summary

498. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will take into consideration that further to the re-allocation of moneys from pillar 1 of cap to pillar 2 for the expansion of rural development policies and considering with the introduction of 7% greening requirements on farms, if he will introduce a series of top up payments to smaller family farms that are hit hardest by these new measures and that by giving an extra payment to farmers on smaller holdings with lower payments will be contributing to the rural development and sustainability in rural areas by not allowing rural depopulation and the wipe-out of smaller family farms. [15060/13]

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Rural Development Policy

  xml · EN · 26 March 2013

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.