Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

First, I apologise to Dr. O'Mara for running over time. I know we kept him waiting in the hall. He has given us a serious amount of information on the schemes and it will be on the committee record, which is very important. One issue I see flashing out at me now is that Teagasc will have a scarcity of resources. We are getting many complaints about people who are trying to get advisers to do their applications for ACRES. I think there will be many disappointed people out there. In fairness, they can only do what they can with the resources they have, and the timeframe is extremely short. When you consider the proportion of people's income that was involved in GLAS, the loss of the GLAS, combined with not being able to enter ACRES, will have a huge impact on a certain sector of farmers.