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

Okay. However, people are only allowed to earn €30,000 and the penalty is 100% after that. Is that not correct? People get the first €30,000 of income but, after that, there is a 100% penalty. Unfortunately, many of these very small farmers do not keep all their receipts. The social welfare officers are fair enough and always take a certain amount of State payments at stated cost because it is obvious you could not have cattle without having some feed costs and whatever. This is a very severe rule on a very vulnerable group. Could some of the easier, smaller matters be changed by regulation or are they all set out in statute law?