Mr. Niall Ó Donnchú:

The LIFE programmes tend to be. The longest one, in my experience, has been the SNAP one to which we referred earlier. That is a nine-year programme. The living bog programme was maybe a five-year one. The corncrake programme was a five-year one. The Wild Atlantic Nature project is a seven-year one.

The Chair is absolutely right. I come from a farming background so I am fully appreciative of the view that the market sends a signal. It sends a signal about milk or on headage or sheep. That is what it tended to do. We need to make sure the signal coming on nature is constant and consistent. That is the message we are about. This will not stop; it will be a constant. We recognise that there is an investment of time, effort and resource by the landowner and, like any resource, it is producing a good. If that good is a nature service, we need to be in the space that rewards the production of that nature service, plain and simple. The Chair is right that we need to be giving the farmers and landowners producing those services certainty that we will be there next year, the year after and the year after that. Nature does not stop. The seasons do not stop changing. In the context of where we are as regards those really important annexed habitats, the need to continue to nurture and protect will continue to exist. That is why the nature restoration law is a 2050 programme.