Mr. Pat McCormack:

My point was that a person can go to his or her local co-operative merchant and the merchant will know that person's allocation. A person would not be in a position where he or she would break the law by over-purchasing. The obligation would be on the employee in the co-operative to look at the screen, type in people's herd numbers and say they can only take 2 tonnes or 2.5 tonnes because they has used their allocation. The last thing we want is that come next September or October, a Department official goes out to people's farms and tells them they have breached the nitrates directive by spreading an extra 50 kg bag above and beyond what they should have.