Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I understand that more than half of the cases of derogations have been successful but I can get the exact figure for the Deputy later.

It is imminently sensible that if one is going to write to 10,000 farmers to outline the rules for qualification for the disadvantaged areas scheme, DAS, then one would use that opportunity also to check where they are farming, under what schemes, and so on.

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