Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That comes to the crux of the issues we are going to face. I am sure there would be quite a reaction from other farming organisations to any proposals to restrict the saleability of a person's private property. I am struck by the opening statement of the witness where the limited availability of land is mentioned. The statement also addressed that some schemes for moving land from productive use to other uses would limit that even further. Is it not fair to say that it is not that agricultural land is becoming non-agricultural land for the most part? It is that existing farms are getting bigger. That poses a very big question that we need to tackle. Going back to the earlier point of the future of the family farm model, lots of countries are currently producing the same, if not more, food than they were 50 years ago but the number of farmers that are involved are a tiny fraction of what they were 50 years ago. That is something we need to avoid. Has Macra a view in terms of what the maximum size of a farm should be? That is a big question.