Mr. Thomas Curran:

Almost 17,000 applicants or farmers have applied to Teagasc to complete the work for them. I am sure the private consultants are no different. We are working through a process where all of those applications are being assigned to both our own staff and the temporary staff whom Dr. O'Mara spoke about in his opening address. We have in the region of 3,500 of those completed. Figures I see from the Department this evening are that 7,500 are submitted and another 13,000 are in the pipeline on the system nationally.

While I do not have specific details of the payment, I can look them up for the Deputy and provide them afterwards. It depends very much on the measures chosen and whether the farmer is in the co-operation project, CP, or in the general scheme. The general scheme is very much dependent on what measures the farmer chooses to adopt and implement on the farm.