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I was approached by Dennis Canavan, who has a long-standing interest in the subject and has been pioneering and spearheading efforts to get greater recognition of St Andrew’s day, both as a holiday and as a cultural event, through the St Andrew’s day campaign committee.
However, in considering options we have to be very careful, because there is a dilemma here. Using the tunnel, farms would get payments in 2019 or 2020, based on their activity back in 2000.
They are not accurate, however, in terms of what local authorities are getting. We are looking at a specific element of what they get, which is their main source of income—I think that it is about 55 per cent—from Government.