Mr. Paud Evans:

We carried out a review of commonage parcels in Ireland in 2010. We excluded lakes, trees, houses, etc. I think we reduced the entire area by 20,000 hectares. By virtue of a provision in the EU regulation, we were entitled to recalculate any applicant where the reduced area of land would have been sufficient for him or her to get fully paid during the reference period. I estimate that approximately 98% of all farmers met that requirement. We were able to reduce the number of entitlements and increase their value. Even though we took some areas from the commonage, the vast majority of them got fully paid.