Mr. Kevin Cardiff:

That would be a bonus. Regarding leader programmes, we did an audit on it some years ago now. In fact it was picked up on a little in debate here. We were quite positive about the community nature of how leaders worked here but there were some negatives in the leader system more generally. We can certainly send that to Deputy Kyne, though it is now a little bit out of date.

On the question of responding to individual representations, there is not much point because we do not audit the farmer. We might turn up at a farm but we are really auditing the member state, the Commission and the work they do. We never impose a penalty. In our training we do make a certain amount of effort to ensure that when auditors turn up at a farm, they understand that this is a stress and a strain on the farmer concerned and that they must deal properly, respectfully and reasonably with people. We would expect the same standards from other auditors. It is a problem for us that when we turn up at a farm there may be two of us and the paying agencies or the Department of Agriculture might come along as well. In some countries, the national audit office would come along as well, so there might be ten people turning up because we have turned up.