Mr. Francis Morrin:

If I have the Deputy's question on the young farmer's scheme correct, it is to give an update on what is happening next year in particular. The young farmer's scheme at the moment is a support particularly targeted at farmers under 40, who are starting their farming enterprise. At the moment, they receive a benefit of €68 as a payment per entitlement held. That is what they have received all the way up along in the current CAP programme up to this year. That changes next year to a benefit per hectare, and also a higher amount of money, which is a higher proportion of the overall direct payments budget of some €35 million per year. We estimate that those young farmers applying from next year onwards will receive an average of €175 per hectare declared on their application. That is subject to a maximum of 50 of those. In total, that means that over the course of five years a young farmer can draw down a maximum benefit over those five years. Essentially, it is a start-up grant over five years of approximately €40,000.