Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

Some aspects have to be decided but I will tell the committee what I can. It is an implementing regulation of the European Union and has been published. The Commission will provide €50 million in funding and calls it a temporary adjustment scheme. The conditions include membership of an environmental scheme or of a quality assurance scheme, and a requirement for some kind of temporary reduction is imposed by the Commission. The Commission has looked at the case made on the market. It has indicated, as it did in the case of the temporary voluntary reduction scheme in the dairy sector a couple of years ago, that if it is a market scheme and farmers want the €50 million, one of the conditions is that there must be some temporary adjustment in supply to address the market issue.