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

The Minister is missing the point. He has accepted one payment for islands because generally they are a very disadvantaged group. We know, based on livestock figures from his Department, that on average the output of livestock in mountain areas is half that of anywhere else in the country. Therefore one would expect that people farming designated mountain land would receive twice the DAS payment for that land for the next three years. People often have land in both disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged areas.