Mr. Cormac Cunningham:

There is an idea that with scale comes a fall-off in welfare. I do not accept it. In theory it can happen but I could take the Deputy onto some small farms that I have visited. In the past I was an inspector and went on to do quality audits on farms for a company in Monaghan Co-op. I was on farms where the quality standards were far from those on some of the bigger farms. Size is not an indication of quality, as the Deputy well knows.

People who win the quality prizes are often very small farmers but people who have won the national quality prizes-----