Mr. Pat Smith:

I support Deputy Coonan's comments on balance. One example is Bavaria, which is approximately the same size as Ireland and which has the same agricultural output. However, because it is an industrialised part of the world, its carbon problem as it relates to agriculture is approximately one tenth of Ireland's because we are non-industrialised. That lends factual support to Mr. Bergin's comment that everything has to change on a global basis. We should not run ahead of ourselves. Food security will dominate on a global basis and agriculture will be treated differently. If it is treated in the way the IFA advocates, we can expand sustainably without fear of problems with targets.