I support the proposals put forward recently by Mr. Fischler because we need to decouple production to get away from the numbers, and payment should be area based. There are 7.5 million cattle in this country. Farmers must have numbers to survive in farming today. This is wrong. If payments were made through an area based system, cattle numbers would be reduced substantially. I would not be surprised if they were cut in half. We would then have a better quality animal produced at a much younger age. I heard the Minister say earlier that the days when one would see animals over 13 months, or even 24 to 30 months, are long gone. By reducing the numbers of cattle, farmers will be in a better position to feed them and a better quality of animal will go to the marketplace. That is the only way forward.