Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I take the ICMSA's point about having so many days accident free. Maybe a sign like that is not quite the way of getting it across. However, I think there should be very visible signage around farms, in particular for people like myself who visit farms but who have no great knowledge of the dangers of the machinery, of slurry tanks and so on.

In regard to the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association, I was particularly struck by the education for children point in its statement. Maybe today is not the day but perhaps it will e-mail me at some stage in regard to what it would like to see on the curriculum in terms of education and where it starts. Does it start at national school and go the whole way through? Should we have some sort of certification for education of children in farming communities? I acknowledge the point made about the squeeze on prices from both sides, so to speak, and the bureaucracy involved. Bureaucracy is killing many of the industries in our country. We just heard today that a farmer spends a whole day on the administration side of his or her business. I sympathise with the delegates. Do they have any ideas as to how we might limit the bureaucracy? There is not a lot we can do about the economic squeeze but surely there is something we can do about bureaucracy.