Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It appears to me that the Minister is being optimistic. There have been some crazy refusals. I had three cases last weekend of elderly farmers who had applied for derogations on medical grounds but were refused. The Minister will find these kinds of cases will win on appeal. To cut to the chase, the Department gets a month-by-month expenditure list against profile and knows its expected outturn.