Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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I would like some clarification. If all the hill farmers were to make claims in respect of all of their hectarage, that would increase the total number of hectares and push money into the commonage areas. In other words, under-declaring is causing the money in the fixed pool to seep out of the commonage areas and into the rest of the country. If every one of the commonage farmers and people with commonage entitlements made claims in respect of their land, that would reduce somewhat the payments received by everyone else in the country. Is that not the case?