Mr. Ruairí Cunningham:

On price, this week's Irish Farmers' Journal included an analysis of the price paid to liquid farmers in the South for the 12 months up to August. The price in respect of the largest producer, Glanbia, was 34.78 cent. Our average price over the same period was 36.7 cent. We are paying a very good price to farmers. They would not come to us if we were not doing so. What is more, they would not stay with us unless we paid them a proper price. The fallacy that Strathroy Diary Limited provides cheap milk and is dumping it in the South is wrong. We pay our farmers top price. We do it better. We are more competitive. That is why we have increased in size. It would appear that processors in the South could not, perhaps, get their ships in order and do things the way we are doing them, and for this reason this campaign was launched.