I am not and never have been opposed to area aid based payments and return to the key point of the importance of allowing people to live in rural areas. One of the difficulties regarding some of the payments we received during the years was that the people whom they were designed to help went to the markets and gave them away. There was a benefit to Ireland in the moneys received but individuals who needed them most frequently gave some of them away. The decoupling proposals are related to area based payments and I do not have a difficulty with them provided the objective of keeping people in rural areas is achieved.