Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

To put it into context, the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, has what are commonly referred to as two pillars. Pillar 1 relates to the €1.2 billion the Comptroller and Auditor General referred to. These are direct payments to farmers that are fully funded by the EU. Pillar 2 refers to the various schemes encompassed in the rural development programme. These are co-funded by the Exchequer and the EU. They appear in our Vote because they are co-funded by the Exchequer and are part of the Vote. These include the rural environment protection scheme, REPS, and the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, or the disadvantaged areas, now areas of natural constraint scheme, which appear in the Vote. The basic payment scheme, the greening payment and the young farmer top-up-----