Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures of which a person who owns a private, non-designated mountain under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, can avail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6494/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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All GLAS applicants must engage the services of a professional advisor to prepare and submit an application. A wide range of actions is available to all farmers and it is the advisor’s function to identify those actions most suited to the farm in drawing up the application. However, where specific Priority Environmental Assets have been identified on an applicant’s holding, these must be addressed.

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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141. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the shorthorn breed will be designated as a rare breed under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6495/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Native/Indigenous breeds are regarded as those that originate in a certain country. In Ireland, for Bovines this includes Kerry, Dexter & Irish Moiled. The Shorthorn is not regarded as a native breed and accordingly cannot be included in the Irish list of native breeds in danger of being lost to farming.