Mr. John Enright:

On the issue of land consolidation, we would have members who would have availed of that option but for the simple reason that the lease was up on the land they were renting and they did not get the land. They lost the land they consolidated but a year or two years later they got other land. While their payment per hectare might seem high, they have land without entitlements as well, which would make it lower. It must be taken into account that farmers could have genuinely lost land under the present system and it may take a couple of year to get it back. That needs to be taken into account, in that they have so-called clear land with no entitlements on it, due to no fault of their own, only that the lease date was up.