Responsibility for remaining within our allocated EC milk quota is a matter for the dairy industry itself. Under the quota system operated by Ireland, milk quota is allocated to milk purchasers. While my Department monitors the national position on the basis of milk intake information received from purchasers, the purchaser is responsible for the management of that quota and thus for the transmission to individual producers of information on an ongoing basis regarding his/her quota position. Each individual producer has an allocated milk quota and a decision by that producer to deliver milk in excess of that quota involves making an assumption that other producers will deliver less than their entitlement.