It is extraordinary that the Minister should say that it is a matter for the industry in his opening remarks. Would he not agree that it is the Government who should create various favoured climates for other developments — I am not talking about the weather — and should his Department not be directly involved in creating a favourable financial climate to give the incentive to farmers to vary their seasonality because of the knock-on effect not only on milk but right through to the production of beef?

It is precisely because not only my Department but also the Government, of which I am a member, have been concerned to create the right climate to enhance profits that we have seen the profitability in this sector over the last three or four years. I should like to tell the Deputy that it is not the intention of this Government to intervene in an area where private enterprise, involving farmers, processors and producers, has proved to be so successful. That is not our approach to Government in this instance.