Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

My remit is to serve and implement Government policy. In the context of the fund for beef, that is the subject of an implementing regulation at European Union level. The implementing regulation is a market measure designed to help beef farmers through a very difficult market situation. The conditions in that regulation were determined by the European Commission. The title of the regulation is "Temporary Market Adjustment". The college of the Commission, when this was approved, inserted a requirement that there be some market adjustment required of Ireland. That is not something we sought. I was simply trying to read into the minds of those who crafted this and I am assuming that they looked at it and said it was a market issue which requires some kind of market adjustment. It is not connected to climate change but is a condition of-----