Mr. James Nix:

There would not be an increase because we would be maintaining what is already in tillage. The concern is that one would end up with quite a significant migration, particularly in the southern and south-eastern counties such as Wexford, Carlow and Waterford and others, out of tillage and into dairy production. The point I made earlier is that one would have increased emissions arising therefrom because one would have more animal feed to import, as well as more import requirements for raw materials for entities like Flahavan's, which use oats, and that in turn pushes up one's transport emissions.