asked the Minister for Finance the rate of progress to date on the establishment or reckonable adjusted acreage in conjunction with the farmers' taxation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

By end-May 1986, the latest date for which figures are available, the staff of the farm classification office had inspected and determined the adjusted acreage of 2,336 farm holdings covering an area of 714,180 statute acres for the purposes of the Farm Tax Act, 1985.