There is a facile suggestion that the Minister for Agriculture and Food is responsible for intervening in a wrangle between farmers and the meat factories – that is not the way the market works. The Minister is correct to insist on a degree of liaison and transparency with regard to how prices are arrived at. The weekly monitoring of prices has been a help but we do not need to re-invent the wheel. I visited France 25 years ago where a system for grain prices based on accountancy principles derived from the books of grain co-operatives was in place, along with a system of sharing profit and, in the event of pain, sharing the loss. There are models which are not of the confrontational nature such as we see at present where crude market forces operate alone. I question how the Minister can intervene helpfully with regard to restraining those market forces other than by ensuring that prices are transparent and available and people know exactly what the product is making.