Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

It would be €90,000.

As for the forgotten farmers, they do not all have the same story to tell. There are farmers who feel they have missed out and have low entitlements. If they were to be funded, it would have to be through a linear cut in other direct payments. We have contacted the Commission on this. Based on its advice, it is not possible to apply a linear cut to deal with this issue.

There is an omnibus proposal, however, making its way through the system, which is an amendment to 15 EU regulations across a range of sectors, including some of the CAP regulations. Part of the omnibus proposal would allow a linear cut to fund what would be termed as specific disadvantaged categories. That is not defined in the omnibus regulation. However, it might be possible under the omnibus regulation to apply a linear cut to fund categories of disadvantage. It would have to be decided what the categories were. The omnibus proposal could be applicable from 1 January but it is looking that it might be shoved out a bit. If the proposal goes through as it stands now, it would be technically possible to apply a linear cut across all direct payments and fund a variety of areas of specific disadvantage. However, that would be a linear cut in everyone else's payments.