Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes, but there is nothing more we could do to affect that other than to make it as practicable as possible for farmers to continue. We could not do a new scheme for them. It would be much more practical for those who were in GLAS, for example, to continue on GLAS and to continue with the measures they had than it would be to do a new scheme. I do not think doing a new scheme would necessarily have continued to capture those 7,000 farmers. Maybe some are retiring. I imagine there are a myriad of reasons-----