Mr. John Enright:

A few of us have been around this table for a very long time and have gone from crisis to crisis. Probably one of the most abused words in those crises has been "transparency". Whether it is on the beef side, the dairy side or the fertiliser side, as it is now, we are all looking for transparency on that side. We need to deliver it. As someone mentioned earlier, the Central Statistics Office was able to publish the price farmers pay for fertiliser. Why can the CSO not publish the price merchants paid for fertiliser? I know we will hear the excuse that it is commercially sensitive but the price I paid for my fertiliser is also commercially sensitive. We could be here again in 12 months' time discussing some other crisis and we will talk about transparency but we really need to start delivering on that.

We must consider the volume of fertiliser coming into the country, the price at which it is coming into the country and the price at which it is being sold to farmers. We can keep talking and talking but we are going to repeat the same mistakes we have made for years unless we sit down and deliver at this stage.