Professor Linda Doyle:

I want to address Deputy Penrose's comment about the benefit to large farms. It is true that when we come up with new technological ideas, we always start with the bigger farms that can afford to deploy them. It is the same in society in general. We have a particular edge in Ireland because we are able to push the research towards low cost. We demonstrated one of our low-cost networks at the ploughing championships last year and the year before to show people what it looks like. People were able to take the technology in their own hands, touch it and see what it would look like when deployed on their own farms. That is a really good direction to be going in.