Mr. John Shine:

I emphasise the point about the rules. Going back to the Deputy's example and his question as to what would happen if somebody were to rock up to an AGM, the answer is that it is ultimately a matter for the members and their rules as to who they want to allow to join. A co-operative of organic producers would be expected to have in its rules that members be organic producers and so on. Again, it is a matter of trying to facilitate and to empower the co-ops themselves.