Dr. Frank O'Mara:

No. Our proposition would be that regulation has a role but we will not get there by cracking the whip or trying to force people into things. There are 139,000 individuals in farming. The impact they have on water quality is the sum of that 139,000. We have to bring that cohort with us. The work that my colleagues are doing in their respective programmes, the ASSAP and the agricultural catchments programme, ACP, shows that when we do engage with farmers, in particular on a field-by-field level and in regard to, say, the slope in a particular field which they need to keep away from with the slurry and so on, and the impact of what they might do, they are willing to take on board the measures. Our ask would be that we would have an approach of working with people in the river basin plans and that that endeavour is resourced properly as well. A lot of progress has been made through the ASSAP programme, which is co-funded by the Departments of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the industry. That is a great, joined up type approach. That would be my ask.