Michael Comiskey (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his presentation. How many people are participating in GLAS this year? Does the Minister expect that payments will be made under the GLAS scheme by the end of the year?

We discussed beef genomics earlier. I welcome the fact that approximately 30,000 farmers are in that scheme. The only downturn I see from my discussions with farmers is that when they have made all the payments for testing and so on, the size of the payment they receives is quite small, it is €60 to €70. Is there a possibility of increasing that figure to €100 or €150?