Ms Oonagh Duggan:

On the budget for the European innovation programmes, that has yet to be decided. We need a scheme to support breeding waders, that is, birds such as the curlew, redshank, dunlin and lapwing, that like wet grounds. These are birds with which members may be familiar. The money would go towards supporting farmers in regard to actions on their farms in an area we would hope to map in our farmland bird hotspot mapping project in order that funding can be properly targeted. All of the funding would go towards supporting farmer actions such as wader scrapes and other types of habitats.