Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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-----whereby we will have a significant disallowance applied to us which we will have to factor into our budgets. That is crazy when we have the technical capacity to be able to do this much more accurately. We will work with individual farmers to try to limit any financial repayments that they have to make and we can make those repayments, if necessary, over a number of years to try to help cashflow for farmers. We are working with the farming organisations to try to do that as accurately as we can. I appeal to people not to hype up this issue unnecessarily because we have to deal with it and we are dealing with it in as accurate a way as we can. We will have as fair an appeals process - two appeals processes - as we can for farmers who have difficulties.