Mr. Pat Murphy:

The reality is that we will not be able to do very much before 1 January, and I do not think there will be any such requirement.

However, there is a need for publicity because this is just one change coming in as part of the nitrates action programme and a significant number of changes are coming down the line next year. There is a very significant requirement for a strategy to communicate with farmers to make sure of two things. There needs to be an information process in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to alert farmers to the changes that are coming and there needs to be sufficient support. Some of that will come from us, but the Department also needs to take some of that on, particularly with regard to increasing the interaction of farmers with the agfood.iesystem. We are of the view that 50% of farmers or fewer are interacting with that system.