Mr. Padraic Finnegan:

One could do far better than that. If one's farm is big enough and one has a good lot of stone walls, a river and some hedges, one could take all the measures to get one to the €5,000 level under GLAS and one could still put one's entire farm of 60 ha into the organic scheme as well. At the other end of the scale, perhaps in the west of Ireland where farms are small, the fact that REPS is gone means that this double-funding is the worst thing that ever happened. For some reason, neither the Irish Government nor the MEPs nor anybody else seem to have fought against it. The only people affected by the double-funding issue are the smallest and most vulnerable farms in the country. They have been absolutely hammered.