Mr. Jason Fitzgerald:

I attended two of them and our members probably attended 95% of the meetings. In fairness, there were many meetings. I have no issue with the hen harrier project. The people are very professional and they have done a good job thus far, and I believe they will do a good job. They are really interested in providing for the hen harrier and I believe they will be a success. The issue is not with the hen harrier project but with the scheme that was rolled out. We should have had a payment from 19 ha upwards first, with this put on top of it to increase the habitat. This is a completely different scheme from GLAS.