In relation to the animal disease levies, it is utterly unfair to impose an extra €10 million on farmers at this time. The Government should sit down with farming representatives, examine the situation, work through it and give some commitments. Other speakers referred to the rural environment protection scheme, REPS. If some 70,000 farmers are to join that scheme, the Department of Agriculture and Food will have to convince them to do so. That will necessitate a review of the situation whereby, since 1995, the rate of REPS payment has not increased by one cent. Irrespective of who was in Government since then, the scheme is still operating on the basis of an annual payment per farm of around €5,500. Farmers need to be encouraged to join the scheme. If farmer participation in the scheme reached the 70,000 figure to which I have referred, we would have solved three-quarters of the problem in relation to the EU nitrates directive. The farm waste management proposals should also be presented in a manner which is attractive and supportive to the farming community.