Full decoupling has been acceptable to individual farmers and farming organisations mainly because it takes the bureaucracy out of farming and allows farmers to get on with the business of farming – I believe farmers will surprise us all by doing a great job in that regard. We are talking about farming for the marketplace and it has been clearly shown at some of the information meetings referred to that the single farm payment is not the best deal for farmers. The best deal is to have the cushion of the single farm payment, engage in good professional farming, perhaps reduce one's stock a little, cull the inferior stock, maintain better quality and operate a more efficient farming system. Teagasc people, particularly at the information meetings, showed that farmers can increase their income substantially by doing that.