asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, on the completion of the Single European Market in 1992, there will be free movement of milk quotas; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

If the European Community were to provide for free movement of milk quotas, it would first have to remove the link between quota and land. While the Commission in its report on the operation of the quota system indicated that it would be examining this link further and would bring forward proposals in the matter, no such proposals have been submitted to date.