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

Will the Minister answer my simple question by indicating how many farmers have used the online facility to submit a completed application? He stated many times previously that 30,000 farmers would join GLAS, with participants receiving an average payment of €5,000 and those participating in GLAS plus receiving an average payment of €7,000. Is he sticking to his revised estimate that 25,000 farmers will participate in the scheme? Will participants in GLAS and GLAS plus receive average payments of €5,000 and €7,000, respectively?

Can the Minister confirm that this is still what he expects to happen? He gives out about me being pessimistic, but we will see who is nearer to the figure. I never said it would be beneath €15,000.

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