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

I hear what the Minister is saying about the review. We will have to see how granular it is. Some of the weirder anomalies are in the small print. For instance, non-contributory pensioners can have a job earning €200 a week but a self-employed person cannot have any income that is not assessed. Then it gets worse. I know a lot of three- to four-cow farmers in Connemara. The first €5,000 is not counted in respect of environmental payments under the farm assist scheme but it does count for the pension.