Mr. Colm Hayes:

I do not have any final words but we are very heartened by the level of participation and expressions of interest to date. We encourage other farmers who have not yet done so to apply and examine this. There are 88 trained advisers and Mr. Monaghan and his project management team are there to work with those participants.

All of this will be very important in informing the discussions on the results-based schemes in the next RDP. We would be very happy to come back at some point in the future to update the committee on the implementation of the programme.