Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry that I missed the beginning of the presentation. I thank the delegates for being here.

Pillar 1 payments are based on reference years. At the end of this process it will be 26 or 27 years old. That does not mean anything to anyone at this stage because it is so much out of date. How is it envisaged that that problem will be overcome? Will there be some method by which it will be done?

On the notion of front-loading certain ranges of hectares for pillar 1 payments, while I understand it would be neither appropriate nor probably possible at this stage to set out payment rates here and now, about what ratio are we talking? For instance, would the figure be three, two or one on the remainder and would the farmer then would work out how many hectares he or she would have in each of the brackets in order to make it work? Is that the proposal?

From memory, I think the figure for pillar 1 payments comes to €1.4 billion. Is that right?