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

I will tell Ms Harrington the circumstances and we might as well call it here. The person got somebody to fill in the form and they exaggerated the hours the farming was taking. The proper accounts showed that there was no income from the farm. It was €900 in one year and €0 and €0 for the other two years. There is a €7,500 limit to start with. This person worked for years and years and had the farm at the same time. We made that case and what we were told is - and what surprised me was what the parliamentary question response says - they did not say anything about €7,500 but a person is not regarded as being unemployed for jobseeker's' benefit for any day they are actively engaged in farming. This is really useful and I thank Ms Harrington for being so open. It did not say anything about limits. Parliamentary questions are parliamentary questions. They are checked, as Ms Harrington knows, up the line and, therefore, I always expect I might get a more detailed, accurate answer to a parliamentary question than I would to correspondence, even.