Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the case of a person (details supplied) regarding sheep numbers. [53263/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The above named person was accepted into GLAS 2 with a start date of 1st January 2016 and is fully up to date with payments.

As the applicant has Commonage land a Commonage Management Plan was developed by the appointed Commonage adviser and this included an assessment of the vegetative condition of the commonage which was found to be under grazed. One of the objectives of Commonage Management Plans is to establish a grazing regime that protects against both under and over grazing and adherence to the plan forms the basis of the GLAS payment. In some cases such as this instance, compliance with the GLAS scheme includes an increase in sheep numbers as per the recommendations of the CMP.