Mr. Derrie Dillon:

There are a number of elements to it. As mentioned by Mr. Keane, our ambition is to grow the service. We need to grow it. We have identified that approximately 30,000 family farms are without succession plans or identified successors. We want to be in every parish and every area in Ireland to help to support those farm families in their succession decisions. We want to help young farmers and older farmers and to work with organisations such as Teagasc, which provides supports to farmers, as well as with private advisers, to get these discussions happening and to get these arrangements in place. To grow the service, we need in the region of €1.5 million per annum of direct support from the Common Agricultural Policy. We need this in order that we can provide between 18,000 and 20,000 facilitation hours per annum of engagement with the 30,000 farm families across the country who are challenged when it comes to succession and the options that are available to them.

That is our ask in terms of the rural development programme and supporting the land mobility service.