147 Deputy Frank Feighan asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the numbers who have applied for turfcutter’s compensation; if he will provide a breakdown of numbers for bogs in counties Galway and Roscommon and applicant numbers for County Leitrim; if he will put in place a compensation package for farmers who have bogs in these special areas of compensation and who have not cut turf in the past five years; and if the farmers who had sold bog land under the voluntary bog purchase scheme and who did not receive any payment will be compensated under this or a previous scheme, given that a small number of farmers did in fact sign contracts but have not received payment. [6151/12]

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147 Deputy Frank Feighan asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the numbers who have applied for turfcutter’s compensation; if he will provide a breakdown of numbers for bogs in counties Galway and Roscommon and applicant numbers for County Leitrim; if he will put in place a compensation package for farmers who have bogs in these special areas of compensation and who have not cut turf in the past five years; and if the farmers who had sold bog land under the voluntary bog purchase scheme and who did not receive any payment will be compensated under this or a previous scheme, given that a small number of farmers did in fact sign contracts but have not received payment. [6151/12]

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