Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 338: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if a person (details supplied) who farms cattle in the Twelve Bens-Maam Turk Mountains and is obliged to keep the cattle off the commonage for six months of the year will be eligible for a compensatory payment from him for the period from leaving REP scheme in June 2011 to joining the agri-environment options scheme in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9100/11]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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The off-wintering of cattle from commonages in the Twelve Bens/Maumturk Mountains is a requirement of the Commonage Framework Plan, which is regulated by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as a condition of cross compliance. The issue of compensation does not arise in this case.