Dr. Muiris Ó Céidigh:

There is a further aspect on the legislative side. It gives some degree of confidence to liquid milk producers that the State has introduced a statutory guarantee that a premium must be paid in the winter months to pay for liquid milk. If we look around the rest of the islands, milk is just treated as milk. That is why we have the situation in Northern Ireland where people are not doing well at all. Here, we recognise that there is something to protect and that protection is important.