Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 184: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason landowning farmers can no longer benefit from subsidies in respect of special areas of conservation and national heritage areas due to changes, since the original agreement, in the way these areas of land are categorised; and the plans he has to review the situation in view of the loss of benefits such as the extraction of turf by farmers for their own use. [24159/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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My Department compensates farmers for losses occurring where their farming activities are restricted as a result of designation of a Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area or Natural Heritage Area.

In terms of the cessation of peat extraction from designated bogs, the arrangements for compensation agreed with the farming representative organisations in 2004 continue in place.