Mr. Barry Delany:

With regard to what I had flagged earlier, of the licences that we have approved, 1,590 ha have indicated they are proceeding with planting, and that is of the 3,500 ha that are there. With regard to the 7,000 ha that I spoke about in the previous programme, about 2,000 ha of those went through the de minimis scheme. If the Deputy recalls it, we had a scheme to try to bridge the gap between the old programme and the new programme. That was 2,000 of the 5,000, and the other 3,500 have opted into this new programme. Therefore, we can see there is some demand from those who had their licences to proceed.