Mr. Martin Ryan:

Absolutely, yes. We really want to reduce antibiotic use here and improve welfare and health benefits. That is the best and cheapest way of doing it.

On the price issue that was raised by a good few people, I can assure them we will have a competitive price proposition here, because without it, it does not work for anybody: not for us, not for the farmer, and not for Kepak. Like some of the other schemes we had, they were all oversubscribed and we never had people pulling out of them because they were set up for them.

Glanbia co-op, as mentioned by the Deputy, is effectively a farmer co-op with a farmer board. It is run by farmers for farmers. We might be big but we are not a multinational company operating just-----