Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

I have an agreement on the number of inspections that will take place. The cross-compliance penalties imposed last year came to €330,000, from a total of €1.2 billion. Half of the people who received penalties in respect of small difficulties — I am referring to approximately 1,000 farmers — got off on the basis of the tolerances in my scheme. The tolerances were agreed with the farmers.

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