Mr. T.J. Flanagan:

Yes and nobody wants a farmer to go bust. To be fair, the co-operatives that have the most people in this position and that have the most exposure in this position have been proactive and have announced measures. As the Deputy says, some of them are pre-payments against next year, the year after and the year after that but so be it. There is also some pain taken by the general population of farmers and we can only take that so far. We cannot socialise this among all the suppliers to a large extent. It would be unfair and unreasonable that people who did not lock in big volumes would carry this.