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

Was it ever considered to do it like the French? The French department got a loan from its equivalent of the Department of public expenditure, paid the farmers the money, and when it was rectified paid it back.

Why was not that done for a few years? It is like a snake in the grass. The Department will get you sooner or later because people apply for payments every year. So if something is drawn wrong then the Department will get you down the road one way or the other.