Mr. Paul Dillon:

I will start with the last point first. We have an open mind when it comes to what can be done, in terms of what we need to be doing that we are not doing. We always have an open mind because we identified this as an area which needs attention. We are putting extra resources into innovative schemes.

If that does not work, we will have to look again to see what needs to be done. We have an open mind in that respect.

To turn to Deputy Fitzmaurice's queries, the idea with the existing scheme participants and the new scheme participants is that they will all start now from a new five-year contract. We will lock them all in for five years from now. We thought we could get approval from the European Commission to transform existing old organic scheme participants into new ones, but it said it had a difficulty with that because of the regulations. In fact, that is what we were going to do. We are allowed to leave current scheme participants where they are but we must pay them the higher rate. They are going to get new contracts starting from now which will mean that we will have all of them locked in for five years from now.