Mr. Barry Delany:

Through Project Woodland, when the external parties came to examine our systems, they were quite impressed by it, especially a lot of the registered foresters and the Irish Farmers' Association, IFA. They had not realised the capacity that was there. It is a very impressive system and that was backed up in the Mackinnon report as well. Having said, that we have invested really heavily. There was a systems and processes review to make changes in the efficiencies of that. If one looks at the interface now between the applicant and the iForest system, it is a bit more user-friendly for them. We are trying to make it as efficient as possible. We have obviously had to make massive changes in recent months, and so when it was rolled out, there were one or two glitches but they are more or less sorted. Regarding payment delays, they are all sorted and people are able to submit there. The systems are open now for applications, and we can see that there are foresters preparing applications to submit to us in the system. On payments as well, we are trying to make it as efficient as possible.