Mr. Bernard Harris:

As a start. We continued that over the summer, especially talking to farm organisations. We also contacted FAS advisors providing them with updates on any additional amendments or clarifications that are required. We plan on holding roadshows from September onwards to meet farm organisations. We are currently provisionally scheduled to meet the ICMSA across three meetings in late September.

As for other actions and banding, we developed a calculator, which is on the Department's website, into which farmers can voluntarily input their information for 2020 and 2021: milk delivered divided by the average number of cows they have. It will provisionally calculate what they anticipate their banding figure is, so it will give them an indication and the direction in which they are going as to where they sit within the three bands. We plan on having another session with advisers before the end of the year on the update. We had an amendment recently on 29 July to SI 393. It is ongoing. There is no doubt but that there is more to be done, but we will introduce a further programme before the end of the year to make more progress on this.