Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

We were anxious to allocate this money on the basis of ensuring that there was the smallest possible administrative cost. There is practically no cost — it is only a matter of changing the application form that goes out to each single-payment applicant. I do not know whether the industry is interested in going along the French route. The French took a linear cut from the single payment under Article 68 and then put it into a specific fund for sheep.

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