Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

They will be coming under a commonage GLAS plan if they are commonage farmers.

As we are spending EU money - a lot of it - as well as Exchequer money, we have an obligation to ensure that we set targets at the start of the scheme outlining what we want done for the money. If in the first tranche we are getting a significant amount of one measure done and not much in the other areas, we need to try to rebalance. The farming organisations have strongly welcomed the changes making it easier to get into the scheme for farmers in an SAC or if they have rare birds, for example, a hen harrier. It is now easier for those in that category to get into GLAS and increase their payments.

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