Mr. Niall Curley:

Whether there is a case is a question. I think here is a very big case because, if we go forward with this, as it currently stands, there will be a massive waste of money. I completely understand. I do not know what the financial situation was but we were supported, in general, and told to drain land as a model throughout Ireland, especially peatland. That was the guiding light of agricultural wisdom. We were supported to plant forestry on peatlands because it was an added income. Now, it will be the expectation that even the forested peatlands will be restored to a certain extent if they come under what Ireland decides to do. It is a complete reversal of what we were supposed to be doing.

With regard to funding, there is considerable money in the EU and it spends as it sees fit. The CAP is from 1960. Thus, it is a long time coming at this stage, given the amount of land and money that has been wasted back and forth with regard to what it is doing here.