Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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For what is the OFS2 form needed? I realise that when one gets 75% of one's payments, one has to send in the form. What is the reason for it? Does the Department subsidise the organic bodies? I asked that earlier but the delegates may have omitted to answer.

As with a farmer who draws down the single farm payment, for example, why can this not be looked after by the Department? Is it true that if one is coming to the end of one’s organic farming arrangement, one gets priority in applying for GLAS? If organic farmers get into GLAS now, will they be kicked out of it if they decide to get out of organic farming when their schemes end in January or February, for example?