I propose to take Questions Nos. 154 to 156, inclusive, together.
My Department is in the process of establishing the agriculture appeals office on a statutory basis.
The following committees-bodies were established by my Department on a non-statutory basis: the agri-food 2010 committee; the beef task force; the sheepmeat forum; the monitoring committee on implementation of the recommendations of the sheep forum; the technical committee on meat inspection fees; the food agency co-operation council; the food quality assurance schemes review group; the food institutional research measure committee; the food NDP monitoring sub-committee; the task force on agricultural education and training; the strategy group for the pig industry; the agenda 2000 consultative group; the interdepartmental committee on dangerous and exotic animals; the inter-agency group on the silvermines investigation; the BSE scientific advisory committee; the equine liaison committee; the monitoring committee under the protocol on direct payments to farmers; the organic development committee; the monitoring committee for leader; the mid-term review consultative committee on milk quotas; the quota review group; the advisory committee on the role of women in agriculture; the monitoring committee on the CAP rural development plan, 2000-2006; consumer liaison panel; and the advisory forum on farm animal welfare.