Would the Minister consider giving a quota to the farmers who participated in a non-marketing of the milk scheme? They did so in the belief that when the time expired they could go back into milk production.

I cannot hold out much hope for those people. My clinics are crowded with people with super-levy problems of one kind or another including that, but there is a list of priorities and the first few groups on the list will obviously absorb whatever milk there is through the cessation scheme or through flexi-milk. People as far down the list of priorities as those mentioned by the Deputy do not stand much of a chance as things stand.