Mr. Brian Rushe:

I will take the first question on what the Minister could have done. When the emergency fodder committee was first established a key proposal of ours in our meetings at the time was that a national inventory of fertiliser should have been taken. This goes back to the point we discussed around transparency because farmers, rather than being fed by and acting out of fear and uncertainty, would at least have had a better understanding of what was happening on the ground in terms of the real issues around supply. From a farmer's point of view, that is one thing that could have been done but was not done. It could have better informed farmers' decision-making, taking into consideration that we were the ones who carried all the risk. A national inventory could and should have been taken in order to get a firm handle on what was really going on. If we think back to that time, it was chaotic. Mr. McCormack mentioned that there was hysteria, and there definitely was. Farmers did not feed that hysteria but reacted to it because they had no choice. That is the one thing I would say. Mr. Kissane will respond to the Deputy's other question.