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

If I decided in 2018 to record all of my 20 hectares, for example, on the application, with only ten acres recorded as eligible, then I could double my payments on the ten acres, yet still be on the right side of things forever. Perhaps that is an exaggeration. Let us say I recorded 19 of the 20 hectares and stacked it. Therefore, the only difficulty would be that one could not go up or down. In fact, one would come down more or go up slightly less.