Ms Helen Scully:

Yes. I will sum up on what we can do to progress matters for the organic farming sector in Ireland. In terms of the reopening of the organic farming scheme, Bord Bia has been a member of the Organic Marketing Group, which was previously called Organic Focus, and a new committee is due to be set up this year. We believe a series of measures could be adopted by the newly formed group, whatever title it will be given, which could progress the suggestions we made today on developing the sector and which could also address the specific challenges.

On the issue of self-sufficiency, the domestic market is self-sufficient for beef and there are opportunities in that respect for just about every other product. There is also an opportunity for import substitution by having another feed compounder in the country. We need to properly harness the suggestions made today into a workable plan that could be adopted by Government and that would start with the allocation of an additional budget.