Mr. John Enright:

Regarding dairy farming, the other issue is that the policy is to make everything a regulation, and once it becomes a regulation, it cannot be funded under REPS because it is not a voluntary measure. There are issues with that. The following example is related to TAMS rather than ACRES. I refer to low emissions slurry spreading. Last year, farmers spreading between 130 kg N/ha and 150 kg N/ha could apply for a grant. This year, they can no longer apply for a grant because these levels are now a legal requirement. The equipment is hugely expensive for farmers to purchase. The policy has been adopted to make everything a requirement but once it becomes a legal requirement, we cannot support farmers to meet that transition and those requirements. That is a major problem.