Mr. Paul Savage:

We appreciate the fact that there was a huge amount of pressure. The pressure was not just on the Department in introducing the scheme or getting payments up and running. We appreciate that advisers and co-operation project teams were under huge pressure to roll out the scheme; particularly when we decided to take in all applicants as well. That added huge pressure to the system and to advisers as much as anybody else. We are managing that again perhaps a little bit better over the next couple of years where we are allowing people to split the herd or to score in the second year. Some of the herds will be scored in the first year and then the rest will be put out to the third year. We are allowing people to spread that burden out over the remaining years of the programme. As I said earlier, we will work on an ongoing basis very closely and meeting with advisers, as we do on a fortnightly basis, to resolve any issues that are coming up. We will try to make sure the burden is easier and is more widely spread out.