Mr. Vincent Roddy:

As the Senator stated, food security is a major issue. Trying to balance environmental concerns with food security is a major problem. The problem is that we keep going to CAP, which was introduced to deliver enough food for Europe. That was the initial idea of CAP. It then morphed into delivering a cheap food policy which has helped to underpin the economic development of western Europe. We must keep that in mind. We are seeing an increase in food prices now. The Senator asked when we will back before the committee again. I am not sure if it will be in the next five years; I do not know. We could be before the committee in the next five years talking about food security. I think we will be talking about it and how we balance it with environmental concerns. Much as we would like them to, those concerns will not go away either. Realistically what we need, as has been said, is an increased budget to deliver all the ambition, including food security and the environmental ambition.