Mr. Joe Healy:

The last part of the comment shall remain an ecumenical matter. The first question was about the impact of GLAS. Perhaps I left it out so my presentation would stay within the time allowed but nine out of ten measures in the rural development schemes have climate mitigating actions within them. I will read out some numbers. In the GLAS scheme there are 357 km of arable grass margins.

There are more than 238,000 ha in low-input permanent pasture, almost 6,500 ha of minimum tillage, just shy of 13,000 km of water courses protected from bovine animals, 62 km of riparian margins, and 46,000 ha of traditional hay meadow.

The Acting Chairman mentioned the hedgerows. Mr. Cooney might be better on this. I think there are 1.4 million m of hedgerows.