Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Does the Minister favour having the ability to set the cap in Ireland and that every other country could do the same in order to suit each country's own particular circumstances? The Minister talks blithely about inactive farmers doing very little. In my view, the truth is that farmers who have low payments often have low payments because they happen to have been born in an area of poor land. It is not because they are inactive or are not productive. They are producing according to the ability of the land. Has the Minister matched the activity of farmers today - which he knows from the nitrates certificates given annually to every farmer - with single payments?

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