Mr. Nigel Renaghan:

Bear in mind that if we did have the burst production we are talking about and we got up to the level everybody wants, the first thing that would happen is that supermarkets would turn around and say I have loads of produce, so they are going to cut my price by 25%. As I would have nowhere else to go, they would have caught me. That would happen commercially. That is why people are afraid, in terms of organic. They do not want to see what has happened with the commercial farmers who are growing vegetables, producing beef, or whatever it is. That is why a food regulator or food ombudsman would be important. At the end of the day, if we get the increase in production, there should be someone there to protect the farmer in terms of selling it in supermarkets.

I was in a supermarket the other day and I saw organic potatoes from Scotland. They were €1 a kilo. However, the potatoes that were produced in Ireland were €1.25. These were organic potatoes coming from Scotland and the conventional ones were €1.25. I do not understand that.