Would the Taoiseach outline, with regard to his opposition to the super levy, what concessions to Irish farmers he is prepared to trade to protect the dairy industry? I am asking specifically about the Irish meat industry aid to private storage and intervention.

I am not trading anything. My concern is to secure that out of this negotiation will come what is vital to this country — the survival of the Community, the expansion of own resources and the protection of our dairy industry from an attempt to limit its expansion through the unnaturally low limit at which it was held for decades, indeed more than a century of an inequitable commercial relationship between ourselves and our near neighbour.