Mr. Nigel Sweetnam:

We do not want to be bringing fleets of tractors and big silage harvesters into supermarket car parks to block up everything. Ninety-five percent of the people we met in Dunnes Stores in Cork were supportive of the 15 cent increase per chicken that we were looking for. That was all we were looking for to cover our end and keep us profitable. We want support from the committee for the establishment of an ombudsman or regulator to do the job for us. We should not have to be doing what we did over the past two weeks. There should be a statutory approach. Supermarkets should not have the power basically to throw away our product to get footfall.