Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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I have one final question with regard to the €5,000 climate action performance payment, CAPP, that was announced. That was maybe the biggest change or it was new, certainly with regard to what was announced in the changes to the scheme. With the changes the LTWO has proposed, obviously, a lesson for everyone here is that the scale of the issue is actually dependent not so much on the area but on the age of the trees. Based on the figures Mr. White outlined in the table in his opening statement, could the CAPP be used as some kind of ex gratia payment? The recommendation in the review was that it would be looked at. Could that CAPP be used as some kind of ex gratia payment if it was upfront and not across four to five years and it was increased based on the figures Mr. White outlined in that table? Would that suffice as that kind of ex gratia payment?