Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the guests as well and apologise for how late it is. It is grand to hear about all that is coming on but, as the Chair said, there are too many farmers being excluded from this. There will be 5,000 of them, who are involved in the existing schemes, GLAS, and the renewable energy assessment project, REAP, who will not get a place on the environmental scheme. Does this damage the perception of the environmental demand we make of these farmers and are the payment rates inadequate and less than what they got under REPS in the 1990s?