Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As the witnesses are aware, Deputy Lyons, who comes from the centre of Dublin, is the joint committee's expert on milk quotas. However, before turning to the answers for this session, I remind members we are running a little late. I apologise again to the presenters for the next two sessions but we are slightly behind. I suppose the first session was going to take some time just to set the scene, but I ask the witnesses to be brief in their answers. They may forward additional written information or add it to the report being drawn up by Senator Cullinane. However, many questions have been asked and I acknowledge they cannot respond within a minute either. Many areas have been covered, some of which have touched on issues for the second session on the third level sector. Consequently, the witnesses may leave some of those questions if they do not wish to deal with them during this session. In keeping the same order as the presentations were made, I invite Mr. Joe Crockett to respond.