Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I was asking the following. Nearly one from two on the farm assist programme has a dependant, whether adult or child. Most of the people have a dependent adult and many of them would have children. If I look at the people recruited since 2017, will I find that one in two will have dependants or will I find the vast majority are now singles going in? For a participant with a partner or dependent child, the gain is €22 per week. That is the question. We are losing a rich seam of families and my colleagues would share my view. That must be addressed. We must go back to the old way so if a person had a farm income, that person got the full personal rate of €200. There is the adult dependant allowance, the child dependant allowance and the farm income is the person's own. It is not an awful lot to ask out of life.