New code agreed for country’s Greenway Schemes

THERE has been a broad welcome for the new Code of Best Practice for Greenways announced last week by Transport Minister, Eamon Ryan.

The Minister outlined that all National and Regional Greenways will now ‘follow the code’ based on a new collaborative approach and he thanked the farming organisations who were part of the sub-group that finalised the code.

“This code will help us to design routes that have widespread support; that minimises severance of farming land; that provides access to our towns and villages; as well as wonderful ways to experience our beautiful countryside,” said Minister Ryan.

In his foreword to the new Code of Practice, the Minister added that ‘by coming together to discuss the issue in a fair and equitable way, we have achieved a fair and balanced outcome for everyone’.

Galway IFA National Council Representative, Martin Murphy said that the publication of the new code represented a breakthrough for farmers and landowners as compared to what was being proposed in 2014/2015.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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