Mr. Ruairí Cunningham:

I agree with Deputy Deering that the percentage of the ultimate retail price that the farmer gets has fallen off. Cormac sits in the board room and shouts, “More money for the farmer”. We agree with that and we pay a better price than many other co-ops in the South or anywhere on the island but we are businessmen. The Deputy asked about retailer power. That is why the White Paper produced by this committee was very interesting reading. We agree with that. The retailers have too much power. They make too much margin. I am not going to sit here and knife myself by saying something silly. Everyone knows that is a fact. If the White Paper offered a way to wrest some power from the retailer and bringing more back to the producer and maybe a bit to the processor we would be all for it.