Mr. John Keane:

With regard to the forgotten farmers, the two main support payments that were missed out on by young farmers after 2008 were installation aid and access to the national reserve. Any farmer who missed out on both or one of them for the duration of the CAP until 2015 in our opinion is in the group of forgotten farmers. To add to this there is a group of farmers who entered parent milk partnership arrangements between 2005 to 2008. Approximately 300 farmers fall into this category. They were excluded because they were not head of the holding. They were involved in a partnership under certain criteria in 2008. They were told to hold on because installation aid would be available. Later in 2010 and 2011, when these farmers wanted to access schemes they were told they were more than five years actively farming as head of the holding because they had entered into a milk farm partnership in 2005. The same criteria used to not include them in schemes between 2005 and 2008 because they were not head of the holding was used in reverse from 2010 onwards to say they could not receive payments as young farmers because they had been established as head of the holding for more than five years. The criteria that need to be applied is that if farmers missed out on installation aid or the national reserve or both, they need to be in the forgotten farmers category.