Mr. Vincent Roddy:

That is fair enough. I want to make one point on the Natura 2000 designated network across Europe. A fitness check was done on EU nature legislation in 2017 and an estimation was done on what that was worth to the European Union in public good and so on. That worked out at between €200 billion and €300 billion per year to the European public. That would work out at between €2 billion and €3 billion per year in Ireland because we have 1%. If that is broken down on the amount of land, it would work out at about €3,000 per hectare. At best, under the rural environment protection scheme, REPS, farmers got €242 per hectare in recognition of the work they were supposed to do. We have seen that gradually slide and under the agri-environment options scheme, AEOS, it was reduced to €150 in 2007 and it is now coming up. Perhaps Mr. McDonnell wants to make a point on that.