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

In respect of my understanding of an SAC, it was slightly different in the commonage areas where there were commonage framework plans. Other than that, in an SAC a person was given a list of notifiable actions in order that if he or she wanted to dig in a quarry, he or she had to get permission. In most cases, it did not impose any farming regime. The list indicates that if a person wants to do certain things, he or she must notify the Department to get permission, but other than that, he or she is as free as a bird.