No new maps for eligibility changes

New maps showing land eligibility changes for all payment scheme applicants this year have been ruled out by Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney.

He was asked in the Dáil last week by Fianna Fáil agriculture spokesman Éamon Ó Cuív if he would re-issue maps sent to farmers, with reference areas re-calculated, under the new pro rata system for exclusion of scrub land.

Mr Coveney said the new pro-rata system and the Reduction Coefficient for land parcels with scattered scrub are fully explained in the Land Eligibility booklet which is being issued to all farmers.