I am interested in this scheme because I represent a constituency through which the great North road runs. My constituents have been in touch with me on numerous occasions about the virtual convoy of hay going north during the autumn. On behalf of my constituents who are paying for this scheme through taxation, I would ask in what way does the Minister define eligibility for the fodder scheme? To what extent, if any, can the people who exported the hay be excluded from or benefit from this scheme?

I would not call it exporting. It is going from the Twenty-six Counties into the Six Counties. It is a moot point but it is not exporting. I thought the Deputy was going to complain about flooding in his Dublin North-West constituency by literature from other Members of the Dáil. The Deputy is very strong in his own right in that area. The Deputy might have constituents who qualify for this scheme.

I doubt it very much.

The grounds for qualification are as follows: anybody who has in excess of 60 livestock units, that is 60 fully grown cattle, or 300 fully grown sheep or a combination of both——

We have horses in Finglas South. Would they qualify?

If the Deputy is prepared to catch them and feed them I will consider it. The other qualifications stipulation is that the farmer must have less than 75 per cent of his feed requirements.

What about a case where it has been exported?

Again I say that it is not exporting. It is transporting from one part of the country to the other.

The Central Statistics Office would regard it as exporting.

I can understand that Deputy De Rossa has difficulty in identifying hay. Most of what he saw was actually straw. It was taken out of the calculation at the request of Deputy John Francis Conlon, Deputy Leonard and others three months ago. Very little hay went across the Border.