Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Will the Minister get us the paper on the coupling? If we take off the 8% does it tell us what happens if we benefit only the suckler cow sector, or suckler cows and sheep, suckler cows and dairy herds on bad land and so on? Does it give the actual amounts of money? It is very easy to figure out how much one is taking from everybody: taking €10,000 results in a loss of €800. The more data we can get, the more people will be informed as to what their real options are. The people who are not in the coupled area will be against it and all those within it will do a quick calculation on the basis that if they get €10,000 they will lose €800, and wonder what they will get back. My calculation is that if it was €1,200, that would be a gain of €300 or €400. If it is anything less than that they will say it is not worth the hassle of two schemes, even for a few hundred euro.