Mr. Niall Redmond:

In the current situation, the asset that has been transferred within the past five years is included as part of the financial assessment and the contribution of the person in care, or his or her family, is included as part of the financial assessment and his or her contribution will be based on that. Such people will have to make that contribution and if they cannot, it will have to come out of their assets. That is the current set up under the scheme. Here we are giving an option, where there is a family successor in place who is working the farm or the business, to agree to continue to work that, enter into a legal agreement and we can apply the cap in that situation. Under the current situation, the cap does not apply in those circumstances.