Mr. Richie Flynn:

A great deal is being done. The Deputy referred to cheese, Mont-Saint-Michel and so on. Behind the lovely artisan stall to which he referred are people who are working hard to ensure the availability every day of the products he mentioned. There is a substantial operation behind ensuring continuity of supply. The problem is we do not have this in Ireland. While I can guarantee that from September to December we will have a particular amount of salmon, oysters and so on available, I cannot because of a lack of investment in our farms guarantee that they will be available from January to March. As I mentioned in my opening statement, what we need in Ireland is continuity of supply, which means scale. This year Ireland will I hope produce 12,000 tonnes of farmed salmon, the equivalent of under two days work in production in Norway. I would like to see that figure increased to one week.