Mr. J.P. Mulherin:

The Department of Rural and Community Development will, as part of the consultation process, have an input into the policy decisions taken by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. As I said, however, it is early days and the mid-term review did not impact on that division of direct payments. That will be decided as part of the new CAP. The consultation on that has just commenced with the European Commissioner, Phil Hogan. We will be feeding into that in the coming months and years.