The expansion of the Single Market to a total of 500 people will open up the prospect of supplying many new customers with our products and services and our agri-food exporters are ideally placed to exploit these opportunities. We must recall that the Berlin agreement in the spring of 1999 explicitly specified that expenditure earmarked for the existing member states cannot be used to meet the cost of enlargement. Irish farmers, therefore, have nothing about which to be concerned with regard to the enlargement of the European Union. They must grasp it as an opportunity to sell their products overseas to a much larger market.