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

Will the Minister agree that if the €15 million fund is used in the way he has proposed, the vast majority of farmers will see their share of the fund reduced by one fifth every year between now and 2019? Under his proposed arrangement, by 2019 they will be getting no benefit whatsoever from the grassland scheme. I suggest he put the €15 million fund back into the single farm payment scheme and then put €15 million into a coupled payment scheme. He is providing for a coupled payment in the beef sector.

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