Intervention was required in the past and has been used, but it has had a deleterious effect on Irish farming and the capacity of the agricultural industry to compete internationally. It got to the point that the producer produced, the co-op took it away, put it into the intervention store and was paid for it. That is not the way forward for Irish agriculture. That is not the way to protect farm incomes or farmers. If Irish farmers have shown anything, it is a capacity to respond to the signals that come from the marketplace and Europe. If anybody doubts that, all they have to do is think back to the 1970s when we joined the Common Market and the rapidity with which the Irish farming industry responded to the signals that emerged.