Ms Vanessa Kiely O'Connor:

I thank members for being here. As Ms Quinn-Mulligan said, I am representative from the ICMSA and a full-time farmer in my own right. My circumstances are that I am not from a farming background. I took agricultural science as a secondary school subject and that sparked my interest in agriculture. I did a year in agricultural college and a farm apprenticeship to be trained as a farm manager. That is how I ended up in Cork. I did not have any bias because none of my family were into farming so they did not see any obstacles. If that was what I wanted to do, it was not a problem.