Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have said that as well, though. That structure is in place. The default is that if there is an overpayment on a farmer's account from one scheme, it is taken off another. The structure I put in place was that any farmers who had overpayments could ask for it to be attached to their ACRES. Therefore, it will come out of their next ACRES payment or the one after that. It is ring-fenced. Where farmers requested that, it is ring-fenced in the context of their ACRES payments.