Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I will try to answer that question as quickly as possible but I ask the Deputy to indulge me for a minute or so. We are now in a transition period between two CAPs. We should have had a new CAP at the start of this year but we do not have one yet. We did two things for the transition, one of which was to roll over existing schemes. The existing GLAS and BDGP, for example, are being rolled over and participants in those schemes can continue to avail of payments. The second thing we did was to begin piloting some ideas and measures that might inform how we approach a new agri-environment scheme. We will have a new CAP and a major new agri-environment scheme from 2023 onwards but we do not know what that scheme will look like-----