Martin Ferris (Kerry North-West Limerick, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

A long-term lease is just as beneficial to the farmer considering retiring as to the young farmer as it could provide him or her with an additional income from rent. Has Macra any concerns about how the ending of the milk quota system will affect prices? This could be damaging to people who have already invested in dairy production. Rural isolation and loneliness is a serious issue, which I know from bachelor small farmers in County Kerry. I recall Senator McAleese several years ago, along with the GAA and the IFA, tried to put in place a programme to deal with rural isolation.

I seek their views on that because, obviously, Macra na Feirme is the future in that regard.