Chairman:

I thank Mr. McGovern very much. We have had a very good defence and a picture painted of the whole industry and the issues that exist.

We invited our guests here today to see if things could be done in advance of the budget. As a result of what we have heard, I propose that the committee make a submission to the Ministers for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Finance in the coming days so that the information provided to us would feed into the budgetary process. We will decide on that process over the next while. I thank our guests for coming before the committee and for their presentation.