Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I had previously answered on the latter issue. There is no proposed variation of payments and it will be a flat rate payment for all sheep farmers.

In my reply, I listed the menu of options, which will include activities in areas such as lameness control, flystrike control, scanning of pregnant ewes, meal feeding of lambs post-weaning, mineral supplementation for lambs and ewes and faecal egg counting for detection of worms and other parasites. Some of these will be more practical for hill sheep farmers and some will be more practical for lowland sheep farmers, but that is the menu of options they will have the choice of buying into.

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