Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

For some time the Department has pressed for the benefit to be made available to farmers and it was announced in the budget that it would be made available to them. The Senator asked whether ACA only applied to 2017 or had it been extended beyond that year. I am not sure offhand but I shall check it out. l am not going to write future budgets for future Ministers for Finance but we hope that the scheme would last beyond the year.