Mr. John Keane:

I thank the Deputy. The €60,000 relates to a young farmer who has taken over an established enterprise. That limit is impacting there. The point in terms of the capping from our point of view is that currently there are many enterprises which are a number of family farm members farming, be they brothers or sisters together with parents and, oftentimes, grandparents. We feel that putting a cap on that right now as a blunt instrument without allowing or having provisions for that intergenerational piece, where potentially you could have three generations working on a farm, could have a very negative impact on the potential for more than one family member - both young and older - to continue farming, thus placing the farm both at a viability risk but also placing it at risk in terms of the breakdown of the farm structure, the viability of the farm, and whether some individuals within the farming enterprise have to separate out to alternative practices.