My question is for the Tánaiste and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Following on from the Private Members' debate last night, what is the Minister's intention with respect to calling an urgent meeting of the tillage forum to discuss with farming organisations and representatives of the tillage sector how compensation and a crisis fund for those farmers who lost a significant part of their harvest along the west coast due to the bad weather last autumn will operate and how they will be compensated?

As I indicated in our amendment to Deputy McConalogue's Private Members' motion, I intend to convene a meeting of the tillage stakeholders' forum at the earliest possible opportunity. I expect to meet them in the next two weeks with a view to progressing issues they raised at a previous meeting, including the issues referred to by the Deputy.