Mr. Derry Dillon:

Currently, we do not have a functioning food supply chain for farmers. I know the Commission is looking at it on a European level to try to address it, but before we do anything else we must address the position of farmers within the food supply chain, because any further taxation is just going to be passed back to the farmer. It is a fallacy to think that the consumer, processor or retailer will take that on. Unfortunately, it will be the farmer who will get hit.