Mr. John Joe Fitzgerald:

In the yearly review, it should be as simple as a tick-the-box exercise instead of having a farmer in the first or second year trying to gather all of his receipts and spend probably two days inside at the kitchen table trying to get his receipts together and trying to make everything add up. It puts mental pressure on farmers. As well as that, there is an in-person review every three years anyway. Therefore, the tick-the-box exercise for a yearly review would work better. Mr. Buckley mentioned we have double payments coming in this year for ACRES. There will be farmers now worried about how they will spend that ACRES payment in such a way that they will be allowed to keep their farm assist next year. It is all adding up together and it is adding stress. That is my comment.