Mr. Martin Stapleton:

I gave the example of the pilot project in Kilkenny. We had hoped for a lot more than five people to get involved. There certainly is the capacity on farms to try it but there is a mismatch because the people on the live register do not see farming as a future career. It tends to be the case that people who go to work on farms come from rural areas and from the locality.

People who are eligible for farm assist payments tend to come from western counties and not the counties where the intensive commercialisation and expansion of the dairy industry has occurred.