Chairman:

I thank Dr. Hanrahan. As a committee, we intend to do a body of work on this issue. Teagasc is the first stakeholder group we will have before us between now and Christmas. Thereafter we will have all the stakeholders involved in the agri-food sector to discuss this important issue. Teagasc is first up, if I could put it that way. We will have Senator Mac Lochlainn, Deputy Pringle and Deputy Penrose first.