Mr. Francis Morrin:

I shall answer the question on forgotten farmers and my colleagues will comment on ACRES.

I will start with the criteria mentioned. I can say that they are not finalised yet. However for the Minister to have announced them there has been a fair degree of thought put into them. They have been fairly well developed. We believe it is a comprehensive list that means the money would be targeted at those who are in that true group of forgotten farmers. Naturally you want to concentrate the money on those people who need it most. In regard to the level 6 qualification we consider that a basic requirement. It has been there for many years to draw benefit from the young farmer scheme, national reserve as well as other initiatives. We certainly would argue for it to be a basic requirement to draw down any of those benefits. I am happy to take representation on it. I will bring back the comments made here, as well as Deputy Fitzmaurice. I do not see that changing. It is tied in with the parliamentary question mentioned earlier, with the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999. There is a range of equivalences on which Teagasc make an adjudication where there are similar courses which are not exactly the green certificate as such but are equivalent to it.