Mr. Niall Ó Donnchú:

I will come in very briefly on LIFE sites. Ms Carberry will provide detail. One of the challenges around LIFE is that the programmes tend to expire. They are five or six-year programmes. The key decision we have made is that if these interventions are working then LIFE is for life, not to be hackneyed about it. We have mainstreamed those programmes that are coming to an end, if and when they are working. By and large, they are working. The LIFE intervention on raised bogs, for example, was superb. The LIFE intervention on the corncrake is working and we are seeing the numbers increase. Above all, we are hearing the corncrake. Those programmes are now being mainstreamed into the NPWS so that farmers have certainty that where they have made a successful intervention in respect of nature, that will continue. They are being remunerated for that. The range of payments in respect of the corncrake LIFE programme is from €300 to about €11,000, with an average payment of about €3,000. Farmers recognise that if they are farming for nature they will be remunerated for that service and we will mainstream the scheme if it is working.