The agreement demonstrates again, emphatically, that the dairy industry must realise that sales to intervention are not the way to build a viable industry capable of remunerating its farmer suppliers adequately for its raw material. The industry must adjust to that reality. A few statistics illustrate where we are and what we have to do. In the past four years, Ireland has accounted for between 27% and 35% of EU butter intervention intake compared to our 8% share of production. The figures for skimmed milk powder are similar. Our reliance on bulk, commodity products is way out of line with, for example, Denmark and the Netherlands. Whole and skimmed milk power contribute 50% of Irish total production of dairy products compared to 23 % in Denmark and 15% in the Netherlands.