Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have not given the responses yet, which might take a while. I will try and give as much detail as I can.

On Deputy Ó Cuív's question about taxation, we are not trying to give everybody a tax break, we are trying to use taxation to do strategic things, like move land out of conacre into long-term leasing, which is working very well. There has been a big increase in the number of people looking to make their land available for long-term lease, who would previously have been holding it under conacre.

If I can get figures for the Deputy, I will send them to him, but that is my understanding. The anecdotal evidence seems to suggest it.