Mr. Colm Hayes:

As part of the redesign, the €250 million, as I said, is the figure for this year. I will not speculate on what will happen in the forthcoming budget but that call is known.

The Senator also asked about the agri-environment options scheme, AEOS. Everybody in that scheme was offered the opportunity to transition into the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS. Not everybody availed of that offer for a variety of reasons, although some did. However, the AEOS scheme has concluded now. It was transitioning from the previous rural development programme. It goes without saying that anybody in AEOS will have an opportunity, if he or she did not avail of the opportunity to come into the current GLAS, to apply for the next agri-environment scheme in whatever shape that takes under the next CAP.