Dr. Oliver Moore:

-----doubled for payment. That is fantastic. My biggest fear in growing organics is not that it would have a negative impact on farmers, because I think it suits Irish extensive livestock farming. What is different about organic farming is that there is a potential premium and market, whereas often schemes come along and the consumer cannot buy into them. I love what the witnesses from the previous session do. It is fantastic but I cannot buy into that product. I cannot buy that milk. It is just not possible. There were 60,000 farmers in REPS 2 but I could not buy those products. Nobody could. There is a market of €20 billion for organics between France and Germany alone and Ireland has the third lowest level in Europe. We could really suit organics based on our grazing season and based on British and Irish breeds working well with organics. I would not fear anything other than a more vibrant agrifood sector with more organics and I would look forward to that.