Does the Minister intend to bring forward a policy for the development of potato production, considering the difficulties that have bedevilled the industry in recent years? We have imports from Holland and elsewhere and is it not time to get our act together as far as potato production is concerned?

I am well aware of the problems. One of my first jobs was to try to handle a difficult question across the floor of the House about Irish farmers dumping potatoes into the sea. That is the sort of scene I inherited in regard to the potato industry. Since then we have set up the National Potato Co-operative. We put a Bill through the House for the registration of potato growers in order to get information as to who was growing what and in what quantities. We had a very poor response in some areas to the registration of growers. I should like to see many more people being registered. It appears that when the going is good nobody bothers very much. There may have been a glut but that does not prevail at present. The co-operatives have got together and set up a marketing board involving the sugar company, some importers and IFA people.