Mr. Damian McDonald:

The Deputy is right. That is the difficulty. The number of growers is small now because there has been so much consolidation and, therefore, it is clear enough in a lot of cases who it is because there is not a large number of suppliers. However, we made a particular proposal under head 38(3)(b), which states, "Other organisations that have a legitimate interest in representing suppliers shall have the right to submit complaints, at the request of a supplier". If the IFA or the ICMSA wanted to make a complaint, that would mean we could only do so at the request of a particular supplier and, therefore, we would have to identify them for the complaint to be legitimised. We would prefer to be able to make a complaint without having to identify the supplier. That would be much fairer. As the Deputy said, that may be hard in practice because in many cases there may be a small number of suppliers of a particular commodity. We do not believe we should have to wait for the request of the supplier to make a complaint. We think we should be allowed to make a complaint without the request being made. That way, we would not have to identify the supplier.