Mr. Michael Sheahan:

The Deputy approximately ten questions. If I forget any, I ask to be reminded of them. I will leave the question about deer until last and ask my colleague, Mr. Eoin Ryan, to answer it. The Chairman asked about whether black spot areas remained the same. They change from time to time. To provide a recent example, we had a sudden large outbreak in part of south Kerry, which had not experienced particular problems for many years. That became a black spot area and we put a particular programme in place to deal with it. That was a new area that had not been a problem previously. Currently, Monaghan is the most significant large-scale problem area. That developed relatively quickly after a four or five-year period in which it was not particularly above the national average. Sometimes, disease flares up in an area and we put a programme in place to quash it. Over time, the number of black spot areas has reduced as we get the overall disease levels down.