Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Looking down the road to four years from now, I ask that when this is perfected, the Department does not go chopping and changing. Maybe it could give more options to farmers in order that if they do not want to be in co-ordination project zones, it would be up to them to decide if they wanted to go into separate schemes. If the criteria type is perfected on the IT system, chopping and changing every five years would problematic in the context of setting up any of the schemes. Will the Department seek to simplify the method for paying farmers as much as possible in order that they will be paid on time?