Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the officials from both Departments. I will do a quick-fire round of questions and I ask the witnesses to answer them as quickly as they can because I want to let other speakers in. Some 123,000 farmers farm the land and make a living without a derogation. Why are we concentrating on a derogation for 5,000 or 6,000 farmers?