Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

ACRES, which has been raised here, is a hugely popular scheme with farmers. While we had a target of attracting 30,000 farmers into the scheme, it was oversubscribed and 46,000 farmers applied for it. Great work was done in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to be able to facilitate all of those applicants and meet the huge level of demand from farmers. I am not familiar with the specific points raised by the Deputy but I will look into them and come back to him specifically on peat.

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