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

I think Mr. Smyth answered the question in the affirmative but I wish it to be absolutely clear. This is a particular problem with hill land. The Department has completed and issued its Bing map. It has taken out the rock and the scrub. Allowing that there is no significant change in the land - allowing that the Department did that from the sky and allowing an agricultural officer was to come out and walk the land and decided that parts that had been declared eligible were now ineligible even though the Department had said they were OK for the reference area - will the farmer be penalised for that? That is the big question. I accept that if a farmer has two fields and he stops grazing them and the grass is up and there is no agricultural activity, that is a black and white case. I am talking about hill land where there is no change of any significance but when an agricultural officer walks the hill he may decide that big areas that had been declared from the maps as being eligible, are suddenly ineligible. That is what worries farmers. Can that happen now?