Mr. Gerry Greally:

On the subject of asbestos, we got a chartered surveyor company to provide us with figures in this regard. It was done through Grant Thornton, which commissioned that company as a contractor to do the work for us. Therefore, we are familiar with the levels of asbestos material on each of the farms. We could, then, take into account that asbestos costs much more than a fibre cement roof, for example, to demolish. Therefore, the figures in this regard were adjusted to take account of the presence of asbestos. Regarding the figure of €50 per square metre, the farmers have come back to us and they are now talking about €62 per square metre. Again, it is easy to pluck a figure out of the air. They have not given us any detail regarding the breakdown of that figure of €62 per square metre. As far as we are concerned, we have the required knowledge of the type of roof on each of the farms and the amount of roofing material involved to allow us to calculate a cap value.

On that basis, we put together a figure of €50, which takes into account some building inflation costs. To drill down into that figure, the maximum figure we had originally was €47 per square metre. We rounded it up to €50 to include some building inflation costs. On the asbestos, an exercise was done by specialists here and those are the figures they came up with.

On redundancy, we are really just doing what happens in industry in general. When a company goes out of business, the company is bound by law to pay redundancy to its staff. It is statutory redundancy and it is bound by legislation. That is all we are doing here. We would be of the view that farmers themselves could contribute extra to the workers if they wished. We were suggesting, however, that we would only cover the redundancy as per the legislation, that is, as the Deputy said, the two weeks' redundancy. Have I answered the Deputy's questions?