Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

We have said we will look at it on a case-by-case basis. If people had particular difficulties in 2014 and they say on a justifiable basis that 2015 would be a better base year for them, we will look at that. It is difficult to be prescriptive about precisely what those circumstances are. Our objective is not to punish people. We cannot encourage or incentivise people to increase herd size through the scheme. People are perfectly entitled to increase herd size in accordance with the market in the normal way. That will not affect their eligibility for the scheme. Their payments will not increase but they are perfectly entitled to react to the market.