Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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If I can just have one second to make one point, I will give an example. It was not the Department that did this. It is Europe that is sending it in. From next August onwards, if I have land in under the single farm payment scheme or the basic income support for sustainability, BISS, scheme, and it is of a peaty nature, in the context where I sign my single farm payment claim. I want to be clear this will not impact people this May because I think August is the deadline. If, however, I go for the single farm payment the following year, I will be stating that I will not put in any new drain or shore and that I will not plough that land. It will be necessary to do that to qualify for my payment that I got the year before and the year before that without any of those clauses applying. Am I correct in saying that?