Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

I do not think we can actually do that. The Department has to satisfy itself that a payment is properly due. If it is subject to an inspection and so on, we do not know that it is properly due, so we cannot pay the 70%. Again, I do not want to go on like a cracked record, but we are paying and Irish farmers are getting this money so much more quickly than everybody else in Europe by a mile. I suppose I will keep going on like a cracked record because it is a really important point in all of this. The great majority of farmers have received their payments. With regard to the issue the Senator has raised, in a way we are victims of our own success. As more people get paid, the more the remaining people are going to feel disadvantaged. That is just the way the world is. That is a difficulty but-----