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

I would have presumed, from my experience, that there would be a lot of questions. Indeed, I have never seen a situation where the Commission did not have an awful lot of questions. None of this would faze me, I have to say. I would not make a big issue of it. I would like to see the questions, the direction and the responses. If they are legalistic, we will deal with that too because we are legislators after all.

Does the Minister intend to review his Department's proposals for both GLAS and the areas facing natural constraints, ANC, scheme in the context of commonage areas?

Is the Minister willing to meet concerned Deputies about this issue? There is huge concern in the counties that have large amounts of commonage. Their calculation is that the proposals put forward by the Minister will take €17 million per annum out of the commonage areas and transfer it to other parts of the country.

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