I am cognisant of the fact that there are a few other questions to be dealt with. Has the Minister any proposals at all for providing better incentives for on-farm storage and some encouragement to producers? I should like a specific reply from the Minister to those four queries.

If I may take the last of the Deputy's questions first, as I said in my reply, we have made application to the Commission for a substantial increase in grant aid for potato storage. The expert commodity team established for the potato industry clearly identified a serious storage problem at farm level. That commodity team estimated that there was a need for something in the region of 80,000 to 90,000 tonnes storage space on farms which would involve considerable capital investment. While I would be the first to recognise that the potato industry, of its very nature, has been through difficult periods, not alone in the past 12 months but over many periods in the past, I would have to say that there is no common market organisation for potatoes within the Community. There would appear to be considerable resistance among some other member states of the EC to the establishment of a common market organisation for potatoes.

With regard to the question the Deputy raised about below-cost selling, I should say that, when the relevant legislation was first introduced, there was provision that it be revised after a 12 month period. I am sure that the position with regard to potatoes will be considered then. I do not want to anticipate what may happen but I am sure that the problems of that industry will be considered within that legislative review. As I said in my comprehensive reply on the industry as a whole, the expert commodity team examined the matter and brought forward specific recommendations which will form the basis of a five-year development plan for the whole industry. I hope that plan will be available in the not too distant future and will chart the future course of the industry, placing it on a firm footing from which it can progress.