Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Sheep farmers are sheep farmers and we are not all experts on the ins and outs of these matters. Eligibility for the fund was a matter for the Department. Our guests and others from the Department were the ones to work it out. I am still not clear. Regardless of what people on the outside said and the parameters that were set, did the Department actively seek to get funding through the BAR for sheep farmers?