Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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296. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on adopting the 12 point proposals (details supplied) for priority entry into the GLAS scheme in respect of commonage farmers that was provided to him by the hill farmers recently; the reasons for his agreement or disagreement with the proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47758/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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At my recent meeting with hill-farmer representatives I agreed to examine very carefully their proposal,on which much of our discussion at the meeting centred. My Department is giving the proposals detailed consideration and I will be contacting the hill-farmer representatives in due course.