Mr. Simon White:

The scheme will entail getting consultants to measure what is needed because we do not have the data. We know that 90% of the ash plantations are under 3 ha. That means 10% are not. We know farmers with 100 acres of ash. I have 20 acres of ash. There are people in all sorts of difficult situations but it is not rocket science to measure it. We know that a plantation that is 25 years old would have about €6,000 worth of trees standing per acre if they were healthy. All you need to do is measure the age of them. It is not hard to come up with the figure. I estimate the cost of a scheme to be between €400 million and €1 billion.