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

I ask the Minister to confirm the report on agriland.iethat a further 18 rural development programmes were approved in recent days, bringing the total to 27. Is the Minister saying that between now and the end of this month he hopes to have a letter of comfort for GLAS specifically and to open that scheme, with the rest of the schemes opening some time in mid-March or is he saying that GLAS will not open in February but in March? In the event of the scheme not opening until March it is unlikely, under the system the Minister is pursuing, that any payment will be made to any farmer under GLAS in 2015.

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