Mr. Bill Callanan:

We do not have a distance requirement. We have moved to remove what was effectively a potential loophole in terms of people using marginal land to dilute stocking rates. In the most recent action programme there were a lot of additional actions that farmers had to take on. That was a challenge. One of these was changing the stocking rate allowances in terms of commonage land to avoid it being artificially used to dilute the overall farm stocking rate. That was moved to 50 kg of nitrogen with no chemical nitrogen allowance. A number of farmers were utilising on a whole-farm basis the creation of a reduction on paper but it was certainly not a reduction in what was happening at farm level.