29 Deputy Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that the use of last year's stocking rates as criteria for eligibility for entry to this year's disadvantage areas scheme, DAS, is inequitable and a deliberate attempt to eradicate so-called non-productive farmers; his further views that a farmer's circumstances can change and that their stocking density may have been low in the previous year for many reasons and to use previous stocking density is not necessarily a reflection of their current rate of stocking; his views that the spirit of the DAS is to assist farmers in disadvantaged areas and not to reduce the number of farmers on the land as this new criteria will inevitable do; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7009/12]

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29 Deputy Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that the use of last year's stocking rates as criteria for eligibility for entry to this year's disadvantage areas scheme, DAS, is inequitable and a deliberate attempt to eradicate so-called non-productive farmers; his further views that a farmer's circumstances can change and that their stocking density may have been low in the previous year for many reasons and to use previous stocking density is not necessarily a reflection of their current rate of stocking; his views that the spirit of the DAS is to assist farmers in disadvantaged areas and not to reduce the number of farmers on the land as this new criteria will inevitable do; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7009/12]

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