Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Offaly, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses spoke about the lack of knowledge in research organisations. Would they see Teagasc, for example, with its farm advisers, playing an important role in the future, being completely up to speed on this and being in a position to advise farmers who want to change direction or whatever?

Where do they see this fitting into the community-supported agricultural model? There is an interesting weekend coming up in the Ecovillage in Cloughjordan where they will be examining matters which sound like much of what BASE Ireland is talking about, such as feeding ourselves, healthy soils, connecting with each other again, and developing that whole community-supported agricultural model and how it can be expanded. There will be many interesting speakers. I wonder how BASE Ireland sees this fitting in to that type of model.