Mr. Colm Hayes:

Any landowner with any type of land is entitled to inquire or make an application to the Department for planting on that land, although it may not be possible, given that I am not sure of the type of degraded bog land to which the Deputy is referring. I think we are talking about two very different issues.

On the second question, I think the Deputy was referring to the CAP consultative committee, in respect of which the Department is a stakeholder. There are a number of bodies on the committee and there is a strong overlap between it and-----