Mr. Michael Moloney:

As the Deputy has correctly said, the programme for Government stuck strictly with the fibre element, which is the area in which the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is interested. There are regulatory issues around the other elements that are income streams, which are not in the remit of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. They are the responsibility of the Department of Health. Again, it would be for the Department of Health to consider issues in relation to the other income streams. Some of those are constrained by way of regulatory issues. At the moment, there is fibre and seed. That is the licence provided for by the HPRA. In this programme for Government, we are strictly limited to looking at the fibre element.