Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On the awareness aspect, I do not imagine the Department of Social Protection has it but perhaps the Department of agriculture does. Is there a register of everyone who is actively engaged in farming in Ireland? If there is, has the Department of Social Protection ever written to everyone about farm assist and that he or she might be eligible or might not.

On what Mr. Buckley has said, the environmental schemes are interesting. It is not only in this area. If one has schemes on which there are too many hoops to jump through, and one sees it even in terms of some of the business schemes and energy schemes recently, people after a while say it is all right. They note it is not that much and that they will manage and then they will not take it up. That is a problem if the incentives are reduced for people to take up a scheme. Is there a means for the Department of Social Protection to contact everyone involved in farming to make them aware of the scheme and maybe even to address some of the issues around the element of stigma or whatever that is there?