Dr. Mary Carey:

There is a new scheme called the complementary redistributive income support for sustainability, CRISS, which includes terms that are in the regulation. CRISS is also known as front-loading and is a payment to redistribute funds from larger farms to small and medium-sized farms. The payment is paid to every farmer on the first 30 ha. It is not linked to the entitlement values and is paid per eligible hectare.

Mr. Morrin has already outlined the changes in the scheme for young farmers. Protein aid is the other direct payment that will continue broadly in line with what we have now. It us just an increased budget and additional crops that are eligible for protein aid.

I will get back to the Senator about his questions on the eco scheme and fertiliser register because I do not have information on either of them.