Mr. Tom Moran:

Under the GLAS agri-environment climate scheme, if one was allowing a prioritisation to apply which, in reality, will not be an issue now, and was an intensive producer of milk, beef or sheep and was over 140kg, one must choose from one of the four options underneath that. One of the obvious ones would be the trailing shoe mechanism. It was more a question of enticing people into GLAS but forcing them to deliver on something which is beneficial from a climate viewpoint.

A farmer with commonage and lowland must have mountain sheep in that case. Under GLAS, if one has commonage, it is one of the things one must do in order to be a member of the scheme.