Mr. Paul Savage:

People will have a number of options to repay. A letter will be going out to every participant who has an outstanding debt and they will be informed of the means by which they can repay that debt. A number of payment options are available to them. People can actually make the payment over the coming period, whatever period it might be. They can do it via electronic funds transfer, by phone, online, by cheque or bank draft and they can contact the Department to discharge that debt. That is available to them and they will be informed of that in writing. If they have not discharged the debt by the time the next payment comes around in respect of the next scheme, which will be the ANC scheme in September effectively, the debt will be recouped from that next payment. Farmers will have an opportunity to discharge it before we get into any further scheme-based payments. In fact, there is some evidence already that some farmers have paid off debt even since the interim payment was issued to them because they would have seen that their payment was higher than they might otherwise have got in ACRES.