Mr. Pat Smith:

I concur with Deputy Byrne's comments. Last year, a farmer growing a crop of potatoes would have to spray with fungicide ten times to prevent blight. That means going through the field in a tractor ten times, with all the fossil fuel that accompanies such activity. Surely it is beholden on us to explore the potential of a technology which has been proven safe and can avoid those ten passes through a crop of potatoes.