ICSA president Dermot Kelleher. /Donal O' Leary The Irish Cattle & Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) has called for all farmers to be treated equally under the new CAP in terms of land eligibility and conditionality. “[The] ICSA is extremely concerned at the ongoing failure to treat all farmers equally in terms of land eligibility and conditionality under the GAEC provisions,” president Dermot Kelleher has said. “The introduction of GAEC 2, which covers peatlands and wetlands, is a further retrograde step, which, instead of helping the environment, is actively undermining the very farmers we expect to provide environmental public goods.” Contradictory treatment The ICSA has said that it is concerned that extra GAEC provisions will raise the bar for mandatory conditionality and increase the risk that peatland and wetland could be excluded altogether from CAP payments.